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(^ive us, O Scribe, the Open Book 
Give us a sheltered, quiet nook 
To read the Open Book : 

The thoughts of Satirist and Sage. 

Of callow Youth and ripened Age- 

A clean, uncensored page ! 






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NE hope is mine today ; one fervent hope, 
One loyal hope, that Right tuill tuin aliuay. 

ONE prayer, one, only one ; 
God grant my prayer — 
And War is done. 



Jfeatures of 1917 €bition 

Three American Beauties . 218 

Our Own '*Abe" Lincoln . 220 

Our Friends . . . 222 

The Legion of the Cross . 224 

Soldiers, God is Near . . 226 

A Voice ... 228 

Life's Bouquet . . . 230 

Farewell, Old Year . . 231 

A Leap Year Proposal . . 232 

Military Passes . . 250 

Washington Day at the Fair . 254 

Freedom's Day . . 256 

Old Glory . . .257 

The American Creed . 258 

The Call To Serve . .260 

God Rules the Sea . . 262 

Little True Blue . . 264 
Corporal Green Dreams of Kathleen 266 

Berlin or Bust . . . 268 

To Belgium . . . 270 

When the Watch Stops . . 271 



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ttjat ti|e |[Iorh allfotsc, be merciful in jubging 
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nixe War Bible 

Of 4ie Moment 



Written into 



Colloquial English and Pure Slang 
OThe Five Books of Moses 

WitK SideligKts on ^e Book of Job, Hindoo Version 

of {ke Creation of Woman, 3?e Cloister Version 

of me Transformation of Man 

Unfolding 

^TKe Grand Old Story wi^ Cloister Soliloquies, 
Smiles and Tears 



1914 

JAMES AUSTIN MURRAY 
- CHICAGO 



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COPYRIGHT 1914 
COPYRIGHT 1915 

BY JAMES AUSTIN MURRAY 

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JAN 10 1318 



To Her : 



vE^HE dearest, sweetest Wife 

Wkose smile Kas Leen my ^uidin^ star 

throug,h life 
I dedicate tKis Look. 



Dear Friend : 



If from its leaves some note of g,ladness 

g,reets tKine ear 
It is tKe sweetness of her life 

reflected here. 

And, now, i£ you will turn a leaf 

and further look 
You'll know the Lord has bless' d 

the author of this Look : 



©ur life Kas been a pleasure tour 
The Lord has been our ^uide ; 

He made our faltering footsteps sure 
And we've enjoyed the ride. 

Three passengers have come aboard 
And thrilled us with their song, 

Of Love and Joy ; in sweet accord 
We're traveling alon^ : 

Indeed, we've passed the silver post 
Upon the Road of Joy ; 

The Lord was mig,hty ^ood to us : 
Two Girls, and then a Boy ! 




IT'S ON PAGE 



BENEDICTION 


5 


Mea Maxima Culpa 


11 


The Bible 


17 


My Book 


19 


GENESIS 




In the Be^innin^ 


23 


The Garden of Eden 


27 


First Ni^ht in Paradise 


30 


Forbidden Fruit 


32 


The First Family 


37 


The Delude 


41 


The Wine Glass 


43 


The War-Lords' Conquest 


44 


Three Kin^s 


45 


Father Abraham 


51 


Sodom and Gomorrah 


54 


Abraham's Sacrifice 


56 


Courting by Proxy 


57 


Jacob's Dream 


61 


Jacob's Wooing 


63 


Jacob Jumps His Job 


67 


Jacob's Quartette 


70 


Jacob's Only Daughter 


72 


Joseph and His Brethren 


75 



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De Profundis Clamavi 


81 


Pharaoh's Dreams 


83 


The Famine 


88 


Moving, Day . 


95 


Job's Smiles and Tears 


97 


EXODUS 




Ecce Homo 


101 


The Debut of Moses 


105 


General Moses 


109 


A Job and A Wife 


111 


Song,s of Jubilee 


116 


Heaven Fed and Happy 


119 


Modem Idolaters 


123 


Modern Law 


125 


LEVITICUS 




Pure Food Law 


132 


At the Stock Yards 


133 


The God Molek 


134 


The Cry of the Children 


137 


The Passover 


140 


NUMBERS 




The Tribe of Levi 


145 


Ministers of Grace 


148 


New Thought 


149 


'Kin^ Balak and Balaam 


151 



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DEUTERONOMY 



r^thics and Economy 


155 


A Re-incarnate Moses 


156 


Moses Passes On 


157 


Ladies' Tailors 


158 


Fairies of tKe Sta^e 


159 


CLOISTER MUSINGS 




Why War Bible 


166 


War Prophecy of Tolstoy 


171 


Some Prayers 




Getting Across 


173 


The Burglar 


175 


The Outcast's Prayer . . 


177 


Soldiers of Peace 


178 


The Refug,ee's Prayer 


180 


A Thoughtful Hour 


181 


Into the Depths 


183 


Requiescant in Pace 


187 


Silent Prayer 


188 


The Game of Life 


190 


The Indra's Hark 


192 


Find Your Place 


196 


Give Summer a Chance 


197 


A Citizen of Zion 


200 


A Citizen of Cottage Grove 


201 


Zwen^li . . • 


202 



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An Estimate of tKe Sexes 


203 


Open tKe Gate . . 


207 


Armageddon 


208 


Sic Semper Tyrannis 


209 


My Genesis and Exodus 


212 


The Black Spirit 


213 


The White God 


214 


Beyond the Gates 


215 


Time Investments 


216 


Old Testament in Sequence 


218 


A Somnolent Thesis 


219 


Going, South 


223 


The Message of Truth 


225 


Paid in Full 


227 


Hindoo Version of Creation of Woman 


231 


Transformation of Man : — 




Ye Cloister Man's Version . 


237 


The Old New- Year 


238 


Waiting at the Station 


244 


Why Bachelors 


247 


My Christmas Loving, Cup . 


250 


A Cup Full 


251 


It Happened In A Pullman 


253 


My Epitaph 


259 




aNDER tKe encKanting, spell of 
ye Cloister Muse, I typed tKis 
precious volume. I now drop it 
on the Keads of an unoffending, 
public, like a bomb from a Zeppelin. 
Throwing conventional discretion to the 
four winds, I have made a presumptive 
attempt to dethrone some popular idols. 

" You have outrageously violated the 
traditions," said one urbane gentleman 
of the sanctuary. One of my indulg,ent 
friends, ^vhose researches in biblical lore 
have broug,ht her world-wide recog,nition, 
advised me to have it carefully scanned 
by an expert reader. "It may cost you 



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a few dollars, but it's wortK it." "No," I 
said, "I will publish it, and the critics 
will read it for nothin' ! " 

Cromwell once called an artist to do 
him in oil. You know his face \vas dis- 
figured by a vulvar wart. Well, the 
knigjht of the palette remarked that he 
would cut it out. "You paint Cromwell 
wart and all, or I'll shoot you! " — that's 
what Crom said. 

I am not like Cromwell. More like 
the kid with the sore toe ; he v/b.s proud 
of it — and he g,ot sympathy. 

When I say that I revere and love 
the Bible, I am anticipating the verdict 
of those ^vho \vill review the evidence 
and sit in judgment. 

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil 
man: ^preserve me from, the violent man; 
which imagine mischiefs in their heart; 
continually are they fathered together 



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for war: was tKe prayer of David, and 
it is the sincere expression of a g,rateful 
nation today. 

Truly, a benig,n Providence Kas sent 
among^st us an apostle ^wKo is spreading 
the g»ospel of Peace and Good Will by 
deed and by word. Clap your hands, 
ye people! hats off to Woodrow Wilson ! 
Hail to the Chief ! who leadeth a mig,hty 
nation in the way of the Master ; the path 
of Peace ! 

yiy Bible Stories may cause you to 
look up the orig^inal version. If you do, 
I win — and g,reat ^vill be your g,ain. 

Pure Slan^ will be assimilated into 
the classic Eng,lish of tomorro^v: the 
polite speech of today ^vas the slan^ of 
yesteryear: it ^ives the emphasis that 
delivers the thrill, and passes current, 
even amon^ our best people. 

The Soliloquies are the unrestrained 



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outpourings of a pilgrim's progress in 
this vale of Smiles and Tears. 

Smiles and Tears are tKe g,olden 
consolations tKat make life ^vortK living. 
Like the LubLles in the sparkling w^ine 
they agitate the slu^g,ish fluid and sprite- 
fuUy rise to the top. 

The Outcast's Prayer is the sincere 
expression of repentence of a stray soul 
outside the pale. The circumstance of its 
utterance is — but I must let you read the 
story as the \vitness told it to me. 

The Prophecies hold a promise of "a 
consummation devoutly to be wished," 
and inspire us with ennobling Thoug,ht 
that reaches beyond the veil into the 
promised Elysium ! 

In conclusion, I will say that my 
bible is here. Like the Zeppelin bomb, it 
came "^vhen you wusn't lookin'," and 
you'll just have to make the best of it. 



T^heTooipalh To Peacp. 



rdbejlad eflife, because itoiv^esyou the chance to 
loVe and to Work and to play and to look uo at the starst 
To be satisAed v^^itt'ij'our possessions, but not contented 
Wtth^ourself until ^oa have made the best of them,; 
Z4 To despise nothing in the wirld ejrcept fbisehood and 
^^ meanness, and to fear n.othing ejxept coWhrdice, 
X Tobe^ov^med by your admirations rather than iy 
jour disgusts: 

'10 cov^t nothiris^ tfiat is^our neighbors except his 
\ kindness of beart and gentleness of manners- 
To think seldom ofyoiir enemies, often of^our friends, 
and evPry day of Ghrist; 
^nd to spenefas muck time as^ou can, udth body 
^nd with spirit, in ffods out^of doors; 
These are Utile ^ide-posts on the foatpaffi to peace. 




HE BIBLE is a sacred book 
Of knowledge most sublime ; 
The wonders of Creation, 
Of God, of Man, of Time ! 
Pilots on the Sea of Doubt 
Have sought its kindly lig>ht, 
And, by its faithful g,uidance 
Have steered their craft arig,ht : 

aj& ass? 

Countless millions, passed beyond 

Unto that distant bourne 

From whence no earthly traveler 

Did ever yet return : 

And multitudes that live today 

Have read and searched its pag,es 

And found therein imprinted 

The wisdom of the a^es : 




Ye Cloisterman writeth ye book and sticketh ye type. 
Is also responsible for ye meter and cadence, if any. 



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Y BOOK is for the millions 
And those who never look 
Nor seek the consolations 
Within the holy Book. 
E'en ^rave and reverend doctors 
And hosts of fellow sinners 
Who seek, alike, some g^enial li^ht, 
May catch its fickle glimmers. 

Truth you will find in capsules, 

And smiles may effervesce, 

And those who feel its g^entle prods 

Will disapprove, I ^uess ! 

Reader : mayhap you're one of them ! 

In trembling hope I pause — 

Look for the ^ood within my book 

And overlook its flaws. 



Trie Pentateucn 

TTie ¥rOe Books of Moses 



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Ye FIRST BOOK. 



THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN, 

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manuscript of tKe fourteenth century 

belon^in^ to Oxford University. 



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XNFINITE vastness everywhere, 
Silence! darkness! 
God \vas there ; 
He breathed the Word and it 
was lig,ht : 
Darkness vanished into ni^ht. 
*' Let li^ht be ! " the sun came out 
And spread its radiance all about ; 
And from afar with soft*nin^ ray 
It shone benignly on the day. 



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Then came the moon, a tempered 

lifeht, 
Amon^ the stars, to cheer the nig,ht ; 
And 'neath this ^org,eous canopy 
The Lord divided earth and sea. 
He bade the surg,in^ ^vaves divide 
Flowing by hill and mountainside ; 
Near fertile fields the torrents spread ; 
In babbling, ^ushin^ streams they 

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The Word was Keard, and earth w^as 

seen 
To don a robe of freshest g,reen ; 
Dense forests bowed with every 

breeze 
And gardens bloomed with plants 

and trees ; 
In lakes and purling, streams life 

stirred 
In g,lad obedience to the Word ; 
O'er land the solemn stillness broke 
And living, breathing creatures 'w^oke. 

The robin and the nightingale 
And birds of ^or^eous feather 
San^ out the first Thanksgiving ode 
Harmoniously, together. 
Swift and majestic on the win^ : 
The kin^ of every flying thin^ — 
The ea^le — soared from mountain 

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And found his limit in the sky. 



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The echo of the lowing herd 
Quavered responsive to the Word ; 
The rooster's clarion ran^ out 
Bees buzzed and flitted all about ; 
Lions roared and tig,ers leapt, 
Mute animals and insects crept : 
Sheep browsed and bleating lambkins 

played 
All together, unafraid. 

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All things were made by Him, 

and man, 
The last in the Creator's plan. 
To His own ima^e He designed 
Endowing him ^th soul and mind. 
The g,reat world now stood forth 

complete, 
A footstool 'neath the Maker's feet ; 
Resting, the final Word He spoke ; 
O'er all this ^lory Sunday broke ! 



And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; 
and there he put the man he had formed and out o£ the 
ground made the Lord God to ^ro"w every tree that is pleasant 
to the si^ht, and ^ood for food ; the tree of life also in the 
midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of ^ood and 
evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; 
and from thence it was parted and became into four heads. 

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Wi)t igarben of €ben 

'UND AY morning, Adam 

' waking 
At tKe moment dawn was 

breaking, 
Looked around and rubbed Kis eyes, 
And looked again, in great surprise. 
For this picture of creation 
Was indeed a revelation — 
' Twas too good to view alone, 
In Eden, all alone ! 

All around him birds of feather 
Sweetly sang and flew together ; 
Every living thing created 
Were together, all were mated ; 
Little turtle doves were cooing. 
All around him there was wooing ; 
Only Adam was alone — 
In Eden, all alone ! 



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Poor man, tired out and weeping, 
Very soon was soundly sleeping ; 
And the Lord found him alone — 
Adam sleeping, all alone ! 
Ere he 'woke, the Lord had taken 
Adam's spare -rib for the makin' 
Of a woman, of a wife — 
A mate to cheer his life. 



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From his troubled slumber 'waking, 
Adam's heart was almost breaking : 
Looking 'round, he rubbed his eyes, 
Then he beamed in ^lad surprise. 
There a vision of creation 
Full of life and animation 
Was beside him all his own — 
In Eden, all his own ! 




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fi'^'^' ^^^* manner of Love the father bath bestowed upon ue,^ 

tha> we should be called the sons of 6od; therefore the world 

nowetb W0 not, because it hnew him not. 

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geloved, now arc we the sons of 6od, and it doth not yet 

appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall 

appear, we shall be lihe him; for we shall see him as he is. 

m, 
JJnd tvtry man that hati) this hope in him purif icth himself 
even as he is pure. 



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FIRST NIGHT IN PARADISE 

QOW came still evening on, and twilig,Kt 
^ray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad ; 
Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 
They to their grassy couch, these to their 

nests 
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nig,htin^ale ; 
She all ni^ht lon^ her amorous descant sung, ; 
Silence was pleased: now g,lowed the firmament 
With living, sapphires ; Hesperus, that led 
The starry host, rode brightest, till the mom, 
Rising, in clouded majesty, at length. 
Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless lig,ht, 
And o'er the dark her silver mantel threw. 

When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, 

the hour 
Of ni^ht, and all things now retired to rest, 
Mind us of like repose, since God hath set 
Labor and rest, as day and nig,ht, to men 
Successive ; and the timely dew^ of sleep. 
Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines 
Our eyelids : other creatures all day lon^ 
Rove idly unemployed, and less need rest ; 
Man hath his daily work of body or mind 
Appointed, which declares his dig,nity, 
And the reg,ard of Heaven on all his ways ; 
While other animals inactive ran^e, 
And of their doings God takes no account. 

John Milton. 



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Their first wedding trip now making 
Of the fruit they were partaking,, 
When an apple tree they spied ; 
And a guardian an^el cried : 
" Eat an37 other fruit you see, 
But touch not any on this tree ; 
Lest you be tempted, come not ni^h ! 
For they w^ho eat will surely die ! ' ' 



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And now a serpent came to Eve 
With cunning words couched to 
deceive : 
" Eat all you want, and you will he 
Like unto God, just try and see ! " 
Eve took an apple from the tree 
And said: "one never will hurt me. " 
The lovers ate it to the core, 
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Ijah mabe* ^Anb l|e satb unla tlje 
footttan, ^ea, J[|ati| doh satb, "^e sl|all not eat 
of e^erg tree of tl|e garbett: ^nb tl^e fijoman 
saib rtnto ti|e serpent, ^^^e ntag eat of ti|e frntt 
of i\]t trees of tl|e ^arben : bnt of tl|e frntt of tl|e 
tree 6ii|tel| ts in iiie nttbst of tlje ^arben, dob I|atlj 
satb, ^e gl|all not eat of tt, nettlyer gI|aU ^e 
toncI| tt, lest ^e bte. c^wb tl|e serpent satb nnto 
tl|e l&JOtttan, '^t sljail not snreig bie : for (iob 
botH} knofij tl|at In tl|e bay ge eat tlyereof, tl|en 
yonr eyes si|all be openeb, anb ye si|all he as 
gobs, kno&Jtnjg goob anb e£rtL ^nb 6il]en tlje 
toman sa6j tljat tl|e tree ftras 300b for foob, 
anb tl^at tt tes pleasant to tlye eyes, anb a tree 
to he bcsireb to make one foise, slye took of t{|e 
frntt tl]ereof, anb btb eat, anb gahe also xxnia 
Jtfer I|nshanb 6iitl| Ijer ; anb i|e bib eat* 

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A little apple, what a cost! 
Through it a Paradise ^was lost. 
Terror struck, the recreant lovers 
Put on skimpy fi^ leaf covers ; 
Eden's lovely first edition 
Brought the race to sure perdition. 
And it happened on a Sunday — 
"Sic transit gloria mundi." 



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Love lives and lies in ^voman's eyes, 
And lies, and lies, and lies, and lies ! 
Since the first \voman. Mother Eve 
Turned them on Adam to deceive. 
Love-laden, limpid, laug^hin^ eyes ; 
A perfect fig,ure, charming size ; 
She wore no Nemo or Kabo 
And puffs and pads she didn't know. 






LOVE 

Lies in Woman's 

EYES 

and Lies 

and Lies 




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If Eve sKould travel down Broadway 
She'd make a stunning Kit today; 
The swellest dame in Paris style 
Would have to side-step for awhile. 
O ^irls ! it's not the clothes you wear 
Nor yet the way you do your hair ; 
It's just that something — smile 

I mean 
That lends enchantment to the scene ! 



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One may possess the gladdest rag,s 
And put them on like coffee La^s : 
Another with a g,in^ham wrap 
A^ed five -and thirty years, mayhap, 
Will trip alon^ like Sheta's queen 
And make you think she's seventeen! 
What is her secret, can you ^uess? 
She's ^ot me ^oin^, I confess ! 



"And the Lord God said : Behold the man has become 
as one of us, to kno-w ^ood and evil : and now, lest he put 
forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, 
and live forever : therefore the Lord God sent him forth 
from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground frona whence 
he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at 
the ^ate of the Garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming 
sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the 
tree of life. - Gen. Ill, 22-24. 



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Now, Eve and Adam settled down 

To a quiet, humdrum life, 

And Bible Kistory tells us 

She was a neat and naodel "wife. 

Cain was her first-born, evicted 

boy. 
Followed by Abel, meek and coy ; 
Cain, in ang,er, killed his brother 
Brin^in^ woe and tears to mother. 

Tears, soon dispelled by sweetest joy 
When Seth came forth a bouncing, 

boy. 
Good Adam smiled upon his w^ifo — 
For centuries he smiled throug,h lifo. 
Almost a thousand years of bliss ! 
Always the same sweet Eve to kiss ; 
Eve truly was a model wife 
And Adam loved her all his life. 

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23 

WKat say you, men, for Reno bound? 
Stick around and stand your ground 
And cultivate the Adam smile 
Bestowing it on one tKe w^Kile. 
The woman once looked ^ood to you 
And chances are, if you were true : 
If you adopted Adam's ^vay 
She'd love you better every day. 

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Smile all the while ; 

One little smile 

Will start a thousand other smiles 

And soon those smiles will shine 

for miles : 
And what if Fortune's ^vhims 

and wiles 
Chang,e all on earth for miles 

and miles ; 
Change all we w^ear to ne^wer styles ; 
We still may wear 
Old fashioned smiles. 



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The first born son of woman, Cain, 
I wll revert to once ag>ain ; 
This man ^vent fortK accursed of God 
And settled in tKe Land of Nod. 
He led a most unhappy life 
And took unto Kimself a ^vife. — 
"Whose little ang,el child ^vas she?" 
You ask her name — now let me see ! 

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*' Search the Scriptures, " 
you may find — 
It seems to have escaped my mind ; 
In Genesis, read chapter four: 
I cannot tell you any more. 
Now, when your questions puzzle 

me, 
I hope, dear reader, you'll a^ree 
To have your Bible close at hand 
For reference, you understand. 

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I truly mean to be sincere 
In all you find recorded here. 
My purpose is to stimulate 
And entertain wKile I relate; 
To ^et your interest aroused 
In fields wKere I have lightly 

browsed : 
I'll ^ive the chapter and the verse 
That tells the story quaint and terse. 

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Alas ! we find him all about 
Who ^oeth forth with sneer and 

doubt ; 
He will not see : there's none so blind 
As he who gropes with cankered 

mind; 
We meet him in our daily walk, 
This cynic with the tainted talk ; 
Give him the road, make clear 

his way : 
He comes to scofi", and not to pray! 




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HE Bible Story of the race 
Tells how the people fell from 

^race; 
Tells how the flood was 
brought about — 
And how it drowned the people out. 
All but Noah, who built an ark, 
A sort of floating Central Park — 
One kind of beast and bird with mate 
He put within his ship of state. 

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It poured for forty days and nights 
And put out all the tower lights; 
The ark rose buoyant toward the sky 
And landed on Mount Ararat dry. 
Then Noah op'ed his window wide 
And bade a^raven fly outside ; 
It perched above his cabin door 
And croaked a mournful 
"nevermore!" 

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One day tKe captain passing by, 
Amon^ tKe beasts found Cy DeVry, 
A stow - a - way within tKe ark 
WKo said Ke Kailed from Lincoln 

Park. 
And since tKat time NortKsiders say 
Cy cincKed tKe job Ke Kolds today: 
His secret cKarm works all tKe 

wKile — 
It always works, Kis winning smile. 

NoaK was ^ood and pleased tKe Lord 
And lived to reap a ripe reward ; 
As Kusbandman, Kis vineyard vines 
Produced tKe most delicious wines. 
Like many a captain come asKore, 
NoaK kept drinking " Just one 

more;'* 
And e'en as ^ood men sometimes fall 
NoaK imbibed too mucK, tKat's all. 

Oen. IX, 21-29 



THE WINE GLASS! 

Who Kath Woe? Who hath Sorrow? 

Who hath Contentions? Who 

hath Wounds without cause? 

Who hath Redness of Eyes? 

They that tarry lon^ at the 

Wine ! They that ^o to 

Seek mixed Wine. Look 

not thou upon the Wine 

when it is red, when 

it ^iveth his 

color in the 

CUP 

when it 

moveth itself 

aright. 

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t • • • 

At 

the last 

it biteth like 

A SERPENT, AND 

STINGETH LIKE AN ADDER ! 

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trtje Wiat'^otW Contjuesit 

This dir^e made Cromwell cringe and creep, 
Aye ! it will make the War Lords weep. 

The glories of our mortal state 
Are shadows, not substantial things; 
There is no armor against fate ; 
Death lays his icy hands on kin^s : 

Sceptre and crown 

Must tumble down, 

And in the dust be equal made 

With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 

Some men with swords may reap the field, 
And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; 
But their strong nerves at last must yield ; 
They tame but one another still : 

Early or late. 

They stoop to fate, . . 
And must ^ive up their murmuring breath, 
When they, pale captives, creep to death. 

The garlands wither on your brow ; 
Then boast no more ybur mig,hty deeds ; 
Upon Death's purple altar now, 
See where the victor-victim bleeds : 

Your head must come 

To the cold tomb : — 

Only the actions of the just 
Blossom in sweetness, in their dust. 

Retouched^ from Shir lev. 



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CHE Wars that ^rip tKe world 
today 
Are spreading sorrow and 
dismay. 
The message comes, and thousands 

fall : 
So many human lives, that's all. 
One monarch in his palace hears 
And thanks his mighty God, 

and cheers ; 
He sits in comfort on his throne 
And does not hear the dying, g,roan. 

^ Violent ^ing 

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Another monarch wars today 
And millions fall beneath his sway ; 
He is the ^reat Kin^ Alcohol 
Who crushes out the life of all 
That come within his baneful clutch 
When his pernicious draught 

they touch. 
His weapon is the poison cup 
That dulls the brain, and burns it up ! 



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While luckless warriors retreat 
He Kolds Kis victims at Kis feet ; 
The youth and maiden, dame 

and sire 
All fall by his destructive fire. 
Relentlessly he takes his toll : 
His poison damns the very soul ; 
No sword nor cannon ever wroug^ht 
Such ruin as his cup has brought ! 

But list ! A monarch reigns today 
Supreme o'er every earthly sway : 
The g,reat Jehovah, Kin^ of Kin^s ! 
Advances, and this message brings : 
"Hope, My children! come to Me 
All ye who heavy laden be ; 
From Sin and Death I will release 
And bless you with eternal Peace ! " 



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My brother, Peace abide with you ! 
Unto thy better self be true; 
The Lord hath g»iven you a mind 
To help yourself and help mankind. 
Your path is through the battle 

ground 
Where ^vounded brothers lie around, 
Scorched by the fell destroyer's 

breath — 
Your help may save a soul from 

death! 

" Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man : preserve me. 
from the violent man ; which imagine mischiefs in their 
heart, continually are they fathered together for war ! " 

Ps. CXL, 1 - 2 



LOVE yoUR ENEMIES , BLESS^O^--^-- >s\THEM THAT CURSE /OU, 
DO GOOD TO THEM THAT f/~ ' V\ HATE YOU , AND PRAY 

. FORTHEMWHICH DESPITE/tU^^. \\-PU1-LY^USE YOU. 



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Heaven seemed ini^hty far away 
To NoaK's cKildren, so one day 
They organized the builder's trust 
Resolved to build to heaven or bust. 
Their mania was to build a tower, 
A monument to human power, 
With stairs ascending to the sky. 
Reaching the very throne on hi^h. 



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Hodmen's union number one 
Brought brick and mortar by the ton 
And every union man w^as paid 
Six bits for every brick he laid. 
The w^ork w^ent w^ell till foxy Mike 
Said: "now, be jabers men, let's 

strike ! " 
The agitator's shrill command 
No one seemed to understand. 



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Irish and Dutch, and French and 

Greek — 
Even the ling,o the Chinese speak 
Sounded at once on babbling 

tongjUes, 
A thunderclap of lusty lun^s ! 
Chapter eleven, commencing, one 
Tells \vhy the tower was left 

undone — 
Read all the verses up to ten 
If you would trace those union men. 




The To^wer of Babel comes under the 
head of unfinished business. You cannot 
climb into heaven on a ladder of prayer 
without a strong, wall of ^ood deeds to 
support it. 



A ND other sKeep I have which are 

not of this fold ; them also must I 

hrin^, and they shall hear my voice ; 

and there shall he one fold and one 

Shepherd. — John x, 16. 




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Jf attier ^brafjam 

ND now to Father AbraKam 
Our Bible tale g,ives place, 
The man who shares with 
Moses 

The homage of the race ; 
The law of circumcision 
Applied unto his seed, 
And males within his household 
Were first to take the lead. 

Read in chapter seventeen. 
Commencing number ten, 
The Bible will explain the rite 
That marks the sons of men 
Who trace to Father Abraham 
Their origin and place — 
The most authentic pedig,ree 
Of all the human race. 



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45 



At eighty-six ^ood ALraKam 
And his despairing wife 
Prayed to the Lord to send them 
A child to bless their life ; 
A supplemental spouse was found 
In Ha^ar, Sarah's maid, 
Who bore a son, Ishmael, 
The wild and unafraid. 



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Poor Hafear ! innocent and pure, 
Her mistress' wrath incurred ; 
And Ishmael incensed her 
By a playful, mocking word. 
In bad ! ah, well you know it, 
They were cast from Sarah's door 
To starve and die ? nay, God did hear 
As He had heard before. 



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Now when tKe Kundreth birthday 
Of Abraham drew near, 
Sarah bestowed a princely ^ift 
Which filled his heart with cheer : 
Truly, It was a bouncing boy — 
A lineal son and heir ; 
Isaac, a prince of Israel 
Found royal w^elcome there. 



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The heart of Father Abraham 
Was welling up with g,lee ; 
So he went to lod^e that evening 
For the Patriarch's decree. 
He boasted of his century 
And how he'd made the line ; 
While Sarah and the baby 
Were doin^ very fine. 

Gen. XXI, — 9. 



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^obom anb (^omortati 

At Sodom and GomorraK 

In passing, let us look, 

A very wicked spot it was, 

So says tKe Koly Book. 

The Lord resolved to burn the towns 

And wipe them from the map, 

Though Father Abraham implored 

Against this dire mishap. 



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" If only ten just men are found 
The wicked ^vill I spare ;" 
Thus said the Lord to Abraham 
In answer to his prayer. 
His kinsman, Lot and family 
Were advised to leave in haste ; 
To beat it out of Sodom, 
There was no time to w^aste. 



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An an^el led them out of town 
And pointed out the way 
To a secluded mountain cave 
Where they mi^ht safely stay. 
"Look not behind," the an^el said — 
Lot's wife did not attend — 
'Twas ever thus with ^voman 
And will be so till the end. 

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Some scoffers say a lady passed 
Bedecked in stunning g,own, 
And others say a fire sale 
Was billed for Sodomtown ; 
Alas ! throug,h woman's g,rievous 

fault, 
She turned to look and turned to 

salt— 
The Bible tells no sadder tale ; 
Read chapter nineteen without fail. 

Gen. XIX— 26-30. 



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53 



^brafjam's Sacrifice 

And now to prove Kis sincere faith 

This favored man of God 

Was put to a most crucial test 

And smitten with the rod. 

The Lord now asked in sacrifice 

His well beloved son, 

And Abraham said faithfully 

Thy will, not mine, be done ! 

With knife suspended, Isaac's life 
Hun^ by the frailest thread, 
But love and mercy intervened 
And claimed a ram instead. 
An an^el came and stayed his hand 
And blessed him once a^ain — 
Truly, ^reat Father Abraham 
Was the most blest of men ! 

Gen. XX-I-13. 




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Ssaac's Courting lip ^roxp 

OURTING by proxy came in 
vo^ue 
When Isaac sou^Kt a wife ; 
Rebecca was the lucky one 
Who came to bless his life. 
His father's servant made the match ; 
Indeed ! you'd have to ^o 
Some, and then some, to strike the 

stride 
Of that Lothario ! 

A nameless man, a servant — 
But why presume to tell 
So charming sweet a story 
As Rebecca at the well ? 
In twenty-four of Genesis 
Therein the story lies — 
* Twill set your heart a thumpin' 
And brin^ sparkle to your eyes. 



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57 



And while the book is open, 
Look up Rebecca's twins ; 
In chapter twenty -five it is, 
Verse twenty-one begins : 
How Isaac prayed ! and Becky 

prayed ! 
Each asking for a son — 
And Esau came to Isaac, 
Becky chose the lucky one. 

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Esau had the birthright. 
Just had it by a nose ; 
Read how Jacob bought it 
Before the Book you close : 
How Isaac, blind and trusting, 
Was craftily misled ; 
How Jacob ^ot the blessing 
That should rest on Esau's head. 

Gen. XXV-22r29 



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59 



Good Rebecca loved her Esau, 
But she loved her Jakey more ; 
She always thought her favorite 
Should by ri^ht have come before. 
If Isaac's eyes were open, 
It would have been the same. 
As the *' female of the species" 
Would have tried another ^ame. 



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Becky and Jakey live today 
And plan and plot the same old way ; 
Deceiving Ikey, old and blind 
And robbing Esau and his kind. 
Just put your hundred - dollar - rin^ 
To soak, or any precious thing, : 
Then wait, and watch the interest 
^ro^w — 
" And you should own it yet, O no. " 







Abraham's Envoy Extraordinary 
Making a date for Isaac. 



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61 



Sfacoft'g Bream 

With his father's blessing, 
And assured of his birthright, 
Jacob, fearing brother Esau, 
Went forth one starry ni^ht. 
It was Spring,time, and his fancy 
Lightly turned to thoug,hts of love 
He was pining for a soulniate 
Like a lonesome turtle dove. 



Weary with his journey, 
Jacob tarried by a stream. 
And on a stony pillow 
He cuddled up to dream. 
Up and dow^n a ladder 
Silent ang,els moved in pairs — 
Ungloved, and barefoot angels 
Climbed up the golden stairs. 



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63 



And Kis bed was made of gravel, 
And Kis pillow was a stone ; 
Only youth may dream of angels, 
Moved by love, and love alone — 
Slumbering on a bed of gravel 
With a stone beneath his head, 
Jacob's dreams were never sweeter 
On a downy feather bed ! 



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Amplify the story ? 

Far be it from me ! 

Fancy tells me ' mon^st the climbers 

Were his Rachel and his Leah. 

Read in chapter twenty-ei^ht, 

Commencing number ' leven, 

The dream of Jacob's ladder 

That reached from earth to heaven. 

XXVIII~-ll-20. 



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65 



To emulate his fatKer 
Was Jacob's fond desire, 
Though in courting he dispensed 

w^ith 
The proxy of his sire. 
So it happ'd one balmy morning 
Jacob waited at the well — 
It was a likely rendezvous, 
He had heard his mother tell. 

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Now came the lovely Rachel 
And her sheep ^vith plaintive bleat ; 
And Jacob stood enamored 
Of the shepherdess so sweet ; 
He was busy in a moment 
Brin^in^ water to her flock — 
Tw^o hearts ^vere beating, faster 
Than a Waterbury clock. 



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In reward, the maid allowed him 
To take a cousin's kiss 
She ran back to Father Laban 
And told him all — but this. 
His fond maternal uncle 
Took him in with open arms, 
And for twenty years he labored 
Enslaved by Rachel's charms. 



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" Give to me Rachel for a wife 
And I'll labor seven years ; '* 
So said Jacob to his uncle. 
Who accepted, it appears. 
Now w^hen the time expired 
He w^as ^iven Leah instead — 
An older, wiser, sister 
Came unto Jacob's bed. 



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And to another seven years 

He added six years more. 

Six years of clever manag^ement 

Made Kim richer than before. 

With four g»ood wives, a dozen boys, 

Most truly he was blest ! 

And he loved the boys of Rachel 

Better than all the rest. 



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Uncle Laban was exacting 

And a pretty foxy g,uy ; 

But he found his match in Jacob 

He admitted by and by. 

A pastmaster with the flim - flam 

Jacob put a few across ; 

But he had to g,et up early 

Any time he fooled the boss. 




Nix on the noise, was Jake's command, 
To those who helped him pack 

And e'en the frumpy camel 
Soft pedalled on the track. 



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And now this four -ply Kusband 

Resolved to fly the coop 

With all his wives and children, 

A lau^hin^, noisy g,roup. 

**Nix on the noise, " was Jake's 

command 

To those who helped him pack ; 

And e'en the frumpy camels 

Soft-pedalled on the track. 



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Three days w^as Jacob on the road 
Ere Laban ^ot the hunch 
That his nephew had departed 
With the flower of his bunch. 
And Rachel stole the 

bric-a-brac. 
His idols, we are told, 
That he prized above his chattels. 
His silver and his g,old ! 



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Latan fared fortK with Kis brethren, 
Direct toward Gilead's mount 
To overtake the fugitives 
And call them to account. 
Seven days he followed them, 
When weary, worn and spent, 
He came unto the naountain 
Where Jake had pitched his tent. 



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More in sorrow than in an^er 
Uncle Latan baw^led him out ; 
For at heart this son of Bethuel 
Was a pretty ^ood old scout. 
Labe opined his silent blowing 
Was unmannerly and wron^. 
When he mi^ht have celebrated 
With harp, and mirth and son^. 



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74 

Then he rubbered and he rummag^ed 
For the treasures that were copped ; 
Even in the ladies' chambers 
The mattresses he flopped ; 
But Rachel, cute and cunning, 
Was wise to papa's curves 
Though his snooping was annoying 
To her finely balanced nerves. 



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Rachel was his darling daughter, 
A peach and thoroughbred ; 
So he didn't ^et his idols 
But she ^ot his ^oat instead ! 
How she reubed him is recorded 
In chapter thirty-one 
Read unto the happy ending 
Of the story I ' ve be^un. 

Gen. XXXI-~34. 



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77 



Mtoh*i (Quartette 

In telling Jacob's story, 

Before I quite forget, 

I'll present you to tKe ladies 

Completing Kis Quartette. 

There's a cKarmin^ story waiting 

Of Jacob's dozen boys; 

So I'll throw a little g>limmer 

On Kis varied nuptial joys. 

The Bible says that Rachel 
Who was hopeful but afraid 
Made a present unto Jacob 
Of her pretty waiting maid. 
Sure Bilhah was delig,hted 
Though she never said the word, 
To have a share in Jacob 
And become his better third. 



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As I present tKe story- 
It is very plain to see, 
Uncle Laban put one over 
With his prim and passe'' Leah. 
Love sparked in Jacob's bosom 
For Rachel at the well, 
And thus for plural helpmeets 
This constant lover fell. 



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Leah also had her troubles, 
And her lonely maid, no doubt 
Felt the chilly situation : 
Unattached, and strictly out. 
Then Zilpah was invited 
To step in as Number Four ; 
Just glance at chapter thirty — 
Ah ! perhaps you've read before. 

Gen. XXX-1-37. 



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81 



SfatoVsi 0nlv ©augfjter 

And, speaking of the ladies 
It is opportune and meet 
To present the only daughter 
Dinah, dimpled and petite. 
Madam Leah, senior Inausfrau, 
Who presented half the boys 
Responded to the colors 
And completed Jacob's joys. 

Lar^e volumes have been written 
Of Joseph and his brethren 
But you hear a mighty little 
Of his darling little sisthren. 
She looked awful ^ood to Shechem 
And she clave unto his soulj 
Thougjh unwittingly she brought him 
And his kindred fearful dole. 



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Skechem's father, noble Haitior, 
Was induced to plead his cause 
But he failed through racial hatred 
And the Hebrews' moral laws. 
Of the youn^ Hivites misfortune 
And the shocking denouement 
You may read in chapter thirty-four 
Of a people's cruel wron^. 



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Man's inhumanity to man 
Makes countless thousands mourn, 
It brings woe to every Nation 
And to children yet unborn. 
Thou shalt love thy neighbor 
Was Jehovah's own command ; 
Look around you, brother : 
How does His mandate stand ? 

Oen. XXXIV-1.31. 




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Josfepft anb l^ii Pretfiren 

N Joseph and Kis brethren 
I'll throw a little lifeht 
And, barring slight deflections 
It's sure to ^uide you ri^ht. 
Joe and little Benjamin 
Jacob loved above the rest : 
Of course he loved the baby 
But he loved his Joseph best. 

Jacob bought a princely tunic, 
A coat of varied hue, 
And ^ave it to his favorite 
Little boy, -who wore it too. 
His brothers envied him before : 
The coat inflamed them all the more ; 
And when he told them of his dreams 
Their envy turned to hate, it seems. 



GENESIS Seventy-6 

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86 

"In a field we brothers labored," 

Joseph hastened to relate, 

** And your sheaves bowed low and 

humbly 
To my sheaves which stood up 

straight ! 
A^ain I dreamed, O brothers ! 
Sun and Moon bowed down to me — 
Eleven Stars, each one my brother, 
Made obeisance unto me ! " 



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87 



Fate awaited Joe at Dothan 

This intrepid little scout 

Who was sent there by his father 

To search his brothers out ; 

He found them, and they stripped him 

And they threw him in a pit : 

Their purpose was to slay him, 

Reuben's plea prevented it. 



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88 



Later on tKey sold Kim 
To some m.en for Eg,ypt bound 
And tKey tore Kis coat and dipped it 
In some kid's blood on tKe g,round. 
TKey brou^Kt it to tKeir fatKer 
WKo was pitifully grieved 
TKinkin^ JosepK was devoured 
He was cruelly deceived. 



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Coming into Eg,ypt, 
TKose IsKmaelitic men 
Had little use for JosepK, 
And sold tKe boy a^ain. 
PotipKer, Kis master, 
A man of wealtK and power, 
Took Kim Kome and placed Kim 
In command witKin an Kour. 



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90 



91 



This responsible position 
He mi^Kt Kave kept for life, 
But for the machinations 
Of the ^reat man's jealous wife. 
The Bible tells the story — 
You mi^ht look over it, 
And ^et the little details : 
I've skipped a little bit. 



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By vile intrigue and lyin^ 
She accused him of a crime, 
And Joseph fell in peril — 
Through another coat, this time ; 
He found himself in prison 
With two servants of the king,, 
A misfortune that turned out to be 
A very lucky thin^. 



Seventy-9 GENESIS 

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92 ■ 

Those aristocratic menials 
Told tKe troubles of tKeir sleep ; 
Joseph gratified the Lutler 
But he made the taker weep. 
Listen to the story 
As it was told to me : 
Then look it up in Genesis 
And see if v/e a^ree, 

93 

The tutler, throug^h his dreamy pipe 
Had seen a vine with grapes o'er 

ripe ; 
He pressed them in a g,olden cup 
And let King, Pharaoh drink it up : 
The baker balanced on his head 
Three homemade biscuits hard 

as lead 
He stumbled : that is my suppose 
And dropped the buns on Pharaoh's 

toes - ? - 



GENESIS Eighty 

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94 

" O baker man! " said Joe, **^ood 

ni^ht! 
You'll ^et it in the neck, all rig^Kt; 
You' 11 dance on air, tied to a beam — 
That is the meaning of your dream ! 
And as for you, O butler ^reat ! 
A^ain, you' 11 serve the kin^ in state ; 
When back to Pharaoh's court 

you ^o 
Remember Joseph told you so ! " 

95 

Dreams oft presage the sleeper's will 
Su^^estin^ deeds of ^ood or ill ; 
If waking thoughts are pure and 

sweet 
Our slumbers make our joys 

complete. 
Inventors often see in dreams 
The w^orkin^s of their waking 

schemes ; 
And plots to circumvent the foe 
The warriors see in embryo. 



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96 

How often visions come to me 
That fill my enraged soul with g,lee : 
I see the implements of war 
Piled in a heap, from near and far ; 
I see the people in their mi^ht 
Refuse to help the tyrants fig,ht ! 
Ere waking, o'er the world they sin^ 
"God Save the People! Damn the 
Kinfe!" 

3Be ^rofunbig Clamabi! 



97 



Lord ! hear Thy people calling, ; 
Behold the awful sig,ht ! 
A holocaust appalling, 
A reeking, scarlet nig,ht ! 
Fair youth in manhood's flower 
And strong, men in their prime 
Cry out in death this hour 
Against a cruel crime ! 



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98 

Widows and orphans all about 
Now mourn in ^rim despair ; 
Their hearts are wrun^ with ^rief 

and doubt 
That mock unanswered prayer. 
In sullen, silent, calm they wait, 
Tears lon^ have ceased to well ; 
Lord ! save Thy people from a fate 
More terrible than hell. 



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99 

Out of the depths Thy people cry 

They supplicate anew ; 

Have mercy. Lord ! they must not die 

Ere they return to You ! 

Reach out Thine arm against the foe 

That slaug»hters innocence ; 

Proud king,s and kingdoms overthrow 

In Thy omnipotence ! 



100 



101 



IPtiaraoti'g ©reams 

But three days more they did abide 
Till Joseph's words were verified ; 
Outside, the butler closed the g,ate, 
In Jail the baker met his fate. 
Inside the prison Joseph stayed, 
In watchful waiting, undismayed ; 
In dreams he saw the Future ^reat, 
For two years more he had to wait. 

assf ass? 

Two nights Kin^ Pharaoh had this 

dream : 
Fourteen cows stood near a stream ; 
Seven scrawny ones and lean 
Ate up seven plump and clean ; 
Seven ripened ears of corn. 
Glistening with the dews of morn 
Were swallowed up, so it appears, 
By seven thin and blasted ears. 

Genesis XLI, 1-25 



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102 

His troubled, tantalizing dreams 
Were g,ettin^ Pharaoh's ^oat, it seems ; 
He called the wise men to his bed : 
"It's just those rare -bit dreams, " 

they said. 
At last, the butler thought of Joe ; 
His parting words : " I told you so, " 
Brought the youn^ prophet to the 

throne 
To interview the kin^ alone. 

103 

Reporters ! here's a tip for you, 

Listen ! Get this interview : 

Joseph : 

I heard your dream o£ g,reat import ; 

To solve it I have come to court. 

Pharaoh : 

How can you interpret dreams? 

You are but a boy, it seems ! 

Joseph : 

I am Joseph, Israel 's son. 

In truth, the come - eleventh - one. 



Ei^hty-5 GENESIS 

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104 

Pharaoh : 

Come - eleven ! tKat 's enough, 

Go aKead ! unfold your stuff. 

Joseph : 

Your dream of seven - come - eleven 

Is just a timely tip from heaven. 

Pharaoh : 

Yes, Yes, ^o on! 

Joseph: 

E^ypt will ^row a bounteous crop. 

For seven years ' twill never stop ; 

The corn w^ill sprout on rocks and hills 

O 'erflowin^ granaries and mills. 

And after this ^reat overflow 

For seven years no corn will ^row ; 

A famine will infest the land — 

Nothing ^rowin^, understand. 



A Smiling Face will always say 
Good Morning on a rainy day 

More ^ladsomely than words can tell — 
A Smile is Heaven, a frown is 

unnecessary ! 



GENESIS Ei^hty-6 

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105 



106 



My advice ? — Why start a trust 
For corner all tKe ^rain you must ; 
Some wiseKeimer wKo knows the 

spiel 
Could Kelp you carry out the deal. 
It's your move, Pharaoh, you must 

find 
Some youth with a prescient mind ; 
A man ^vith purpose undefiled : 
Some Mama's busy an^el-child. 

Pharaoh : 

I g,et you Joe ! you start the trust 
And draw on me for all the dust ; 
Those stockyard packers, if they're 

free 
Could turn the trick, it seems to me ; 
A railroad president or two, 
If from ChicagjO, one will do ; 
But then there is New York ag,ain : 
Don't overlook those Wall street 

men ! 



Ei^hty-7 GENESIS 

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107 

When Joseph rounded up the bunch 
He asked the mag^nates out to lunch ; 
They broug>ht along, their lawyer men, 
Joe put them in the Cairo pen. 
The youth now governor and judg,e 
Ag,ainst those lawyers held a ^rudg,e ; 
And so he set them doin^ time — 
A punishment to fit the crime ! 

108 

" A turn and turn about is fair " 
Said Joe as he consigned them there 
Remembering complaints, no doubt. 
Of many a prison down - and - out. 
O, mercy me, how I dig,ress. 
It's not so written, I confess; 
So now I will retrace my step 
And to the fact will put you hep. 



A ^ood lawyer is a pilot on the Sea of 
Trouble who steers your craft safely into the 
Harbor of Peace and collects what the traffic 
will stand for ; other lawyers - ? " are pirates on 
the same waters who take all you have, then — 
throw you overboard. 



109 



110 



Wi)t jTamine 

For seven years of Joseph's rei^n 
Egypt's farms o'erflowed with ^rain ; 
In barns and bins the corn piled 

With goodly stores of rice and rye ; 
And every foot of land was tilled, 
And all the royal cribs were filled. 
Then came the famine, it appears — 
A dry and barren seven years. 

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The packers and the Wall street men 

Were called to Joseph's house a^ain ; 

In exultation, they advised 

That Egypt's stores be advertised. 

They all had suffered in a pinch 

And knew the corner was a cinch — 

No fear of competition there ! 

No chance on earth for bull or bear. 



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111 

If I should let my fancy ride 
Until Peg,asus struck his stride, 
I'd introduce some pale - face lies 
To show how magnates advertise. 
In justice to the foxy bunch 
That sat at Joseph's business lunch, 
I must admit they tried no schemes 
On this interpreter of dreams. 



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112 



The famine reached the Canaanites 
And Joseph's brother Israelites, 
Who had exhausted all their corn, 
Came unto Jacob all forlorn. 
" Why stand ye idle " Israel said, 
" While all our kinsmen ^vant for 
bread ? 
E^ypt hath corn, a goodly store 
For all its needs, and then some 
more. 



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113 

Go KitKer, each ^vitK ample sack 
And purchase some, and bring, it 

back ; 
Leave Benjamin at any cost, 
Lest peradventure, Ke be lost : " 
His Rachel 's first - born, best loved 

son 
He mourned, for now he had but 

one ; 
Poor Father Jacob, old and ^ray, 
Was bowed with sorro^v in his day. 

114 

With other men from Canaanland 
Ten sons of Israel took their stand ; 
Impatient, tired and unnerved, 
They w^aited, anxious to be served. 
When Joseph spoke, he called them 

spies. 
Repressing tears that \velled his eyes; 
In s.'we and terror they bo^ved lo^v, 
Fulfilling, dreams of long, a^o. 



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115 

Rou^Kly demanding whence they 

came 
He conjured them in Pharaoh's name; 
And kept them prisoners of State, 
In doubt, and trembling for their 

fate. 
" We wrong,ed our brother," they 

would say, 

" And now we suffer here today ; " 

And Joseph heard and understood : 

By that he knew their hearts were 
^ood. 

116 

In time he filled each brother *s sack 
And put the purchase money back. 
Commanding, Simeon to stay 
Till their return some future day. 
With Benjamin, their father's joy. 
They must return — must brin^ the 

boy; 
Meantime brother Joseph prayed 
The Lord to bless the plans he'd made. 



GENESIS Ninety-2 

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117 

At home, wKen tKeir mishaps were 

heard 
The fathers heart "was sorely stirred ; 
Sim.eon, son of Leah was lost ; 
O w^hat a pang, the corn had cost ! 
Ag,ain the g,rain was g,ettin^ low, 
A^ain the brothers had to ^o ; 
This time ^vith Benjamin they went 
To prove their word and ^ood intent. 

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118 

No^v Joseph watched w^ith ^reat 

concern 
Lon^ for his brothers' safe return ; 
And when at last they came to meet 
In fear they trembled at his feet ; 
To hide his tears he turned aside : 
He would not let them kno^v he 

cried ; 
Much kinder treatment they received 
And Jacob's children were relieved. 



Ninety-3 GENESIS 

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119 

Ag,ain, in filling, each one's sack 
They put the purchase money back ; 
In Benjamin's a silver cup 
Was placed before they tied it up. 
This was a ruse, it brought them back 
Suspected thieves ; they searched 

each sack ; 
I ' 11 let the Bible tell the tale 
Of how they almost ^vent to jail. 



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120 

To plead for life was Judah's task, 
His scepter swept aside the mask ; 
In tearful eloquence it swayed 
Mindful the promise he had made. 
He pictured Jacob bowed \vith ^rief 
His Benjamin condemned a thief ; 
His best - loved Joseph ^vas no more 
And time but made his heart more 
sore. 



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121 

JosepK no long,er could repress 
His heart's o'erflow of tenderness : 
" I am tKy brother ! be it known, 
Thy father, Jacob, is mine own ! " 
Then taking each one to his arms 
He quieted their g,rave alarms ; 
Great honors on them he bestowed — 
The best of Egypt's vintage flowed. 



122 

And at the love feast it was planned 

To bring, forth out of Canaanland 

Israel and their property. 

No matter what the cost would be. 

And in accordance ^vith the plans 

The movers went with Pharaoh's 

vans 
And did their work so quick and 

clean. 

No slicker job was ever seen. 



123 



124 



iHobins Bap 

The family, three score and ten, 
Besides the crew of moving men ; 
Their horses, cattle, all their flocks. 
Their furniture and cuckoo clocks, 
Were ta^g,ed and loaded in the van ; 
And Jacob, now a happy man, 
Gave the word to start the band 
That played " Farewell to 
Canaanland." 



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Now Joseph came in g,rand array 
To meet his father on the way ; 
With Princess Asenath, his wife. 
The sweetest bloom of E^ypt 's life 
They came in chariots of ^old 
Heralded by warriors bold ; 
And Jacob wept g,reat tears of joy 
As he embraced his lon^ lost boy. 



GENESIS Ninety-6 

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125 

In Goshen, land of milk and Koney, 
Israel moved with flocks and money ; 
They tilled the soil and sowed their 

seed, 
How well, in Exodus you' 11 read. 
In passing on from Genesis 
Some incidents perhaps you miss : 
One purpose is to ^et the smiles, 
The funny wrinkle that beguiles : 



126 

I take delig,ht to pick and prune 
And always sing, a merry tune ; 
To dissipate the g,looms that throw 
A spell on mortals here below. 
Pharaoh the kin^ whom Joseph knew 
Has shown up well in this review ; 
In later years another came 
Who brought disg,race upon that 
name. 



127 




128 



Sfoti's Smiles; anb tKearg 

Y putting, in an Interlude, 
With the reader's kind 

permission 
I ' 11 do just like the movies do 
And provide an intermission. 
I ' 11 throw a picture on the screen : 
A g,rander one was never seen 
Of man's humility and love 
Submissive to the Lord above. 

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Richly endowed ^vith pelf and land, 
A shining mark for Satan's hand ; 
Job -walked the straight and narrow 

way 
And praised the Lord from day to 

day. 
Be sure he g,ot on Satan's nerve 
Who tried the holy man to s\verve ; 
And by consent of God Himself 
Deprived him of his land and pelf. 



GENESIS Ninety-8 

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129 

He took Kis children, caused his wife 
To blaspheme and torment his life ; 
And Satan who could do no more 
Left his victim sick and sore. 
The devil hoped he'd curse and rail, 
But all his wiles were doomed to 

fail: 
Job penitently shaved his head. 
Fell dow^n and ^worshipped God 

instead. 



130 



Chronolo^ers have lost the place 
And time ^vhen Job adorned the race ; 
His patience and his faith sublime 
Would honor any place or time. 
Some say he walked w^ith Abraham, 
Some say he chummed ^th Moses, 
Some say the ag,e of Solomon 
His lineag,e discloses : 

Joh should worry ! 



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He is dwelling in the mansion 
Of the Lord who loved him best, 
Where the ^cked cease to trouble 
And the -weary are at rest ! 
This ends my little interlude, 
Not the story — it is ^vrit 
In charming, prose and poesy : 
Read every \vord of it 

In the Boole of Job. 

132 

' Tis well to know- 
That some One knows 
The heart beat of the years ; 
' Tis well to know 

That some One knows 
The bitterness of tears : 

' Tis well some Pilot 
Knows the sea : 
'Tis ^vell He's mine and thine ; 
' Tis well that in adversity 

The Temple lights still shine. 



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Ye SECOND BOOK. 




134 



OR many, many hundred years 
My story ming,les smile and 

tears ; 
For under Eg,ypt's cruel yoke 
Great Israel's spirit almost broke. 
But still, they ^rew and multiplied 
And Pharaoh's wits \vere sorely 

tried ; 
He feared the Jews would take his 

throne 
And crown a monarch of their own. 

He introduced race suicide 
By cruel edicts he applied ; 
And male - born babes were done to 

death 
Before they fairly drew a breath. 
This foolish law to stem the tide 
Of human progress was defied — 
A little Moses it would seem 
Had drifted into History's stream- 
Exodus II, 1-6 



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135 

A racy story, I ' in afraid, 
Of little Moses, and the maid 
Who came in scanty bathing, slip 
Prepared to take her morning, dip. 
Princess Thermuthis was attended 
By Jewish maids in bond descended : 
' Tw^as not apparent in their dress : 
In bathing suits it's hard to ^uess. 

136 

Now, Pharaoh's daug,hter, she it was. 
Whose father made those horrid laws 
Was startled by a baby's cry 
And saw a basket floating, by. 
That cry was Israel's " Shiboleth, " 
And saved a million babes -from 

death ; 
She little knew the weight she bore 
Who broug,ht that precious craft to 

shore. 



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137 



And now^ those knowing Hebre^w 

nymphs 
Lifted tKe lid, and took a g,limpse 
Of pretty Moses, rig,ht in style. 
Wearing a most bewitching smile. 
" Bris - me - lah ! a Yiddish kid," 
The maid exclaimed who raised the 

lid; 
But Thermie Pharaoh sweetly smiled 
And claimed the cherub for her child. 




" That Cry was Israel's Shiboleth " 




Four snow-'white charters pawed and pranced 
And hootchie-cootchies steppped and danced 

As Thermie, all in shimmering lace 
Blew up the path and set the pace 



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138 

And now to find the needful nurse 
The maiden mother op'ed her purse ; 
' Twas Mosey's sister standing, near 
Proposed to find a volunteer. 
I know one with a plenteous share : 
A font of life and loving, care ; 
Who mourns bereft Ly Pharaoh's 

curse : 
Me thinks she'd make a dandy nurse. 



139 



The blushing, maiden g,ave consent 
And back to mother Moses went — 
Back to the font of milk and honey 
With queenly patronag,e and money. 
Then sorrowing Mother Jochebed 
Dolled up, and tied about her head 
A covering, of flashy hue 
Like any modern dame would do. 

Exodus II, 7, 8. 



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140 

Some baby doll was Mosey too 
With snowy lingerie all new ; 
And every matron, maid and miss 
Came to bestow a farew^ell kiss. 
Then papa Amram, puffed and proud, 
Went out and rounded up his crowd : 
Frau Jochy was hig,h-mucky-muck 
So all the men folks had to duck. 

141 

Princess Thermuthis was some ra^e 
When she came in her equipage: 
A chariot inlaid -with ^old 
And costly jewels, we are told. 
Four snow-white charters pawned and 

pranced 
And hootchie cootchies stepped and 

danced 
As Thermie, all in shimmering lace 
Blew up the path and set the pace. 

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142 

If Thermie Pharaoh ^vas alive 
She'd make a hit on Lake Shore Drive ; 
A cubist dame, demure and flip 
Fresh from her 'customed morning, dip. 
At Jochy's jinny-door she knocked: 
So did the neig,hbors : while they 
talked ! 
** Some class ! I think I hear you say: 
Sure ! Little E^ypt shone that day. 



143 

When Moses set his lamps on Ther 
His pinky-pats went out to her ; 
Her chance acquaintance of the beach 
Let out a lusty, joyous screech ! 
He almost jumped from Jochy's arms 
Won by the fair Eg,yptian's charms. 
Was little Mosey worldly wise 
To penetrate the Maid's disguise ? 



EXODUS Hundred-8 

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144 



145 



Some say it was her classic nose : 
He never saw Ker in tKose clothes ; 
My g,uess is that her winning, smile 
Entranced the cherub of the Nile; 
Whate'er it ^was, Miss Thermuthis 
Gave snookums a resounding, kiss 
Then took him by by in her car 
And ^ave the g,ossips quite a jar. 

These little details, I admit, 
In Bible lore are not so writ ; 
I'll pass it to you on the quiet: 
It's just my fancy running riot. 
In Exodus, read Chapter two : 
I think you'd better read it through ; 
You'll find me in a serious vein 
When you resume my book a^ain. 



The Lie that g,ets across must be 
shorn of the dramatics, also details. 



146 



147 



0ioiti ^ (general 

^ana (Bolbbxmb 

From infancy to man's estate 
There's very little to relate, 
While Moses studied Egypt's lore 
For twenty peaceful years or more. 
Then Pharaoh's ^varriors were led 
By General Moses it is said ; 
They marched to Ethiopian Land 
And fougjht the foeman hand to hand. 

Their victories broug^ht spoil and 

fame 
To Eg,ypt's arms and Pharaoh's name. 
At last when he returned to court 
Moses heard a sad report ; 
He saw a man of E^ypt smite 
A countryman Avith all his mi^ht : 
One telling, blow from Moses' hand 
Put that tyrant 'neath the sand. 



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148 



149 



And now to Midian land he flew 
In search of work that he mi^ht do ; 
At noon he sought a resting spell 
And took a seat beside a well. 
Soon Jethro's daug,hters, seven strong 
Came tripping merrily alon^ ; 
They drew some water for their flock 
Deli^htin^ Moses with their talk. 



Some an^ry shepherds came that day 
And tried to drive the maids away ; 
When Moses sho^ved the ^inks 

his arm 
They flew pell-mell, in ^vild alarm. 
Rigjht home the g,i^g,lin^ chicklets ran 
And told pa-pa they'd found a man ! 
The priest invited him to tea 
There, Moses ^ot in rig,ht, you'll see ! 

Ex. II, 16-17. 



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151 



jl STofi anb ^ Wiiit 

JetKro in a business talk 
Gave Moses charge of all Kis flock ; 
And that he mi^ht not be alone 
Gave him Zipporah for his own ; 
And she, upon a timely day 
Broug,ht Gershom, one -fine-boy, they 

say; 
A stranger, in a stranger land — 
A lone sojourner, understand. 

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While tending sheep a messag,e came 
From out a bush of fiery flame ; 
The Lord commanded him to ^o 
And save his people from their woe. 
The new Kin^ Pharaoh ^vas afraid 
And on the Jews ^reat burdens laid ; 
In every way they were abused 
And all their pleas for help refused. 

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152 

With Brother Aaron Moses went 
To ^et the cruel kind's consent 
To let his people leave the land -— 
In fact, he made a firm demand. 
When all their pleadings were in vain 
The Lord directed their campaign 
And put in Moses' hand the power 
To make the haughty tyrant cower. 



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153 

He turned the water into blood 
And fro^s croaked in the scarlet mud ; 
The locusts came and other pests — 
In Pharaoh's house they built their 

nests. 
Not till the final , fatal blow 
Would Pharaoh let the Hebrews ^o ; 
Great miracles seemed all in vain 
Until the kind's own son was slain o 



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154 

In every Gentile Kome 't^vas said 
The first-Lorn son was stricken dead ; 
That fi3rced the stubborn king,'s 

consent 
To let each Hebrew pack his tent 
And march ^vith Moses toward 

the sea 
From Eg,ypt's cursed bondage free. 
Deliverance was now at hand 
And straig,ht ahead the Promised 

Land. 

155 

After many a weary mile 
The Hebrews stopped to rest a^vhile ; 
To count their money and a^ree 
On rates of interest by the sea. 
One ni^ht amidst tumult and roar 
Pharaoh's troops approached the 

shore ; 
Brother Aaron ran^ the bell, 
And Moses sig^nalled all was well. 



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156 

And with his arms extended wide 
He caused the Red Sea to divide ; 
When safely on the other shore 
They saw ten thousand troops 

or more 
Coming up the dry sea-path, 
Suspecting, not a shower bath ; 
Moses signalled as before 
And Pharaoh's army was no more ! 

157 

Ye worldlings who follow 

the gilded white way, 
Seeking the phantom 

of pleasure today ; 
Drinking, in all the delig,hts 

of the cup : 
Be careful ! the ^vhirlpool 

may swallow you up. 
Somewhere a Moses 

is leading, the way, 



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And Kosts of tKe faitKful 

are marching today, 
Out of tKe darkness 

into tKe li^Kt ; 
Follow on, and be sure 

tKat your leader is ri^Kt. 

158 

Don't be alarmed 

by tKe bluster and noise : 
It's only tKe strenuous 

rou^K- rider boys ; 
TKe Red Sea is parted 

ag,ain as of yore, 
TKe broncKos are backing 

away from tKe sKore ; 
TKe voters are sKoutin^ 

a farewell, ^ood by ! 
Have a care, tKere's a rumor 

tKe Colonel will fly — 
Teddy is wise to 

tKe watery patK, 
And it isn't Kis day for taking, a batK. 




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MOSES' SONG OF JUBILEE 



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SING to Jehovah 

And speak of his fame ; 
Exalt Him forever : 

The Lord is His name. 
At the breath of His nostrils 

The waters on heap 
Were parted asunder, 

A way through the deep. 



And hither His people 

He led like a flock, 
Down, down through the shadows 

A pathway of rock ; 
But the horse and his rider 

He drowned in the sea 
Jehovah hath triumphed, 

And Israel is free. 



The holy and mighty One 

Bareth His arm : 
And Pharaoh's proud captains 

Are faint with alarm ; 
He stilleth their clamor 

Where mountain waves leap 
And husheth forever 

Their shouts in the deep. 



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From madness to stillness ; 

A shriek and a moan ; 
They sink to the bottom 

As sinketh a stone ; 
The horse and his rider 

Are drowned in the sea ; 
Jehovah hath triumphed 

And Israel is free. 

Forever and ever, 

O Lord, he Thy rei^n ; 
Thy mountain of teauty 

Thy people shall ^ain ; 
The proud dukes of Edom 

Shall vanish away 
And princes of Moah 

Be filled with dismay. 

For, gently thou leddest 

Thy flocks through the deep 
And tenderly folded 

In safety Thy sheep ; 
The horse and his rider 

Are drowned in the sea; 
Jehovah hath triumphed. 

His people are free." 




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160 



ileabenjfeb anb Happp 

The land the Hebrew children found 
Was -wilderness for miles around ; 
They soon g,rew tired of the eats 
And long^ed for Eg^ypt's oily meats. 
Now, Moses feared ^vith ^reat alarm 
Their murmuring,s \^^ould lead to 

harm; 
He prayed the Lord with some avail 
To send a g,oodly flock of quail ! 



One morning, wonderful to tell 
Manna, the bread of ang,els fell ; 
Now did the Hebre^v Lamb's Club 

boast 
Of most delicious quail on toast ! 
"Far better than the ham -what -am," 
Said every son of Abraham : 
They were a healthy, hung,ry bunch 
And relished Heaven's Kosher lunch. 



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161 

The Marah w^ater, all ag,ree 
Was just as bitter as could be ; 
Sister Miriam, Avhilom cook, 
Was serving, tea ^vith troubled look. 
At last, \vith timbrel in her hand 
She sallied forth ^th all her band 
Straight to Brother Moses' camp 
They went, and overturned the lamp. 



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162 

There was Moses, without doubt 
When his flickering, lig,ht went out ; 
*' Listen, brother," quoth Marie, 
" The Mara is not fit for tea ; 
And ^ve are sure it can be made 
Sweeter, by your potent aid — 
My boarders cannot see the joke ! " 
This, I assume, is how she spoke. 



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163 

To ^et the ax and fell a tree 
And throw it in the bitter sea, 
Was just a moment's work for 

Mose — 
You've heard the story, I suppose ; 
It made the ^vater s^weet and clear, 
Sparkling like Milwaukee Leer. 
Read chapter fifteen — let me see — 
I think the verse is twenty - three. 

164 

For forty days and forty nights 
Moses left the Israelites 
Safe in Brother Aaron's care, 
Safe, he thoug^ht he left them there. 
Far up on Sinai's mountain hig,h 
A lig,ht was shining from the sky ; 
There Moses knelt with outstretched 

hands : 
There he received the 

Ten Commands. 



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165 

Meantime the Hebrew's g,ave a feast 
And importuned the frig,htened 

priest : — 
" Give us a ^od we may adore, 
Like tKe Egyptians bo^ved before ! " 
Aaron was weak, and they were 

bold, 
And so they built their Calf of ^old ; 
They worshipped it the heathen's 

way — 
For Israel, 'twas a sorry day. 

166 

Moses returned from Sinai's mount, 
Called his brother to account ; 
Aaron, with shame upon his face, 
Deplored his people's fall from ^race. 
The tablets g,raved with God's 

commands 
Were broken, hurled from Moses' 

hands ; 
Their g,olden calf, reduced to dust, 
Mixed with their water, curbed their 

lust. 

Exodus XXXII, 1-6 



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167 

Some Jews rebelled with scornful 

lau^h 
And clamored for their golden calf ; 
The Levite trite stood firm and true, 
And all idolaters they slew. 
The Tabernacle was complete 
And God reig,ned from the Mercy- 
Seat ; 
Abiding, faith and peace did bless 
The Children of the Wilderness. 

168 

Alas ! Idolaters today 

Adore their ^old the same old way ; 

The selfish multi-millionaire 

Is preying on us everywhere ; 

His ^ods are cast in golden pig,s : 

The more he casts, the more he dig,s ; 

From children's mouths he takes his 

tolls 
And perils their immortal souls ! 



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169 

All he can ^rasp he turns to g^old, 
Like the calf worshippers of old ; 
The widow's mite, the orphan's share 
He takes and melts — what does he 

care 
Whence conies the ^old for ^which 

he di^s, 
This worshipper of golden pi^s ! 
Truly, I say, a sorry plight — 
We need a Moses here alright ! 

170 

Now, pardon me, if I should draw 
Attention to our modern law ; 
Ing>enious law that w^orks both ways 
Fills one with doubting, and amaze ; 
Courts hi^h and low, and courts 

supreme 
Some judg^es - ? - not just^ as they 

seem ; 
Condemn the w^eak and help the 

strong 
Without regard for rijht or wron^. 



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171 



The law of Sinai's Mount will stand 
Till final Judgement is at hand : 
Of course, we have ^ood laws today 
But Justice cries, and Leg,s her way ! 
Meanwhile, our brilliant congressmen 
Are making more laws now and then ; 
And leaving loopholes, pave the way 
For clients to escape some day. 





172 



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Sometimes it seems that Law Books are the Barriers 
behind which Justice sheds her tears. 

How interesting the story g,rows 
As Exodus draws to a close. 
Showing the growth of civil life 
With all its thrills and all its strife. 
The old Mosaic law holds sway 
In our best governed land today ; 
Read carefully the Ten Commands : 
The Law's foundation, as it stands : 



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173 

Hearken to this : 

Thou shalt not kill ! 

Then look at Europe, if you will — 
A reeking human Abattoir 
Run by " Emperor, King, & Czar," 
Who pray to God to help them slay 
Thousands, if need be, every day : 
Let king,doms wither at Thy Word ! 
Say it, in MERCY ! say it Lord! 



174 

The doom of Europe's Monarchies 

Is writ upon the wall 

And their proud thrones are tottering : 

Stand back — and let them fall ! 

Clap your hands, ye people — 

Shout unto God in praise ! 

His throne alone in Heaven survives: 

Read what the Good Book says : — 



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The Lord hath prepared His throne 
in the heavens, and His Kingdom 
ruleth over all. — Psalms ciii, 19 

His Kingdom is an ever - lasting 
Kingdom, and His dominion 
endureth throughout all the 
fenerations. — Psalms cxlv, 13 

He will hind their Icings with chains 
and their nobles with fetters of 
iron; He will execute upon them 
the judgment written, — Psalms 
cxlix, 8-9 

Let burning coals fall upon them ; 
let them be cast onto the fire; 
into deep pits, that they rise not 
up a^ain. — Psalms cxl, 10 




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eommli Ibv way un(0 tbc Cord; tru$i also in 
blni; and bt sball bring ii to pass. 

And be sball bring forib tby rlgbieonsness as 
ibt llgbi. and iby ludgmtnis as ibt noonday. 




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176 



ROM Exodus ^ve now advance 
So at Leviticus ^ve'U glance ; 
The Book wherein the Law 
is set 

For ceremonial etiquette. 
The timid lambs ^vith plaintive tleat 
Were offered at the Mercy Seat ; 
Aaron presided at the feasts : 
Four sons were his assistant priests. 



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The Bible story mentions two 
The false Nadab and Abihu, 
Who burned strangle incense 

unperfumed 
And for the sacrilege were doomed. 
Peace offering,s came thick and fast 
Israel prospering at last ; 
Aaron was burning cows and lambs 
Which left the market lon^ on hams. 



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177 



178 



Camel steak was plenteous too 
And the mysterious rabbit stew ; 
Pi^s were condemned as food unclean 
But tasted pretty ^ood, I wean. 
Wise Moses saw with ^reat alarm 
This unclean food was doin^ harm 
And so the Kosher law was made 
That boomed the beef and mutton 
trade. 



as& ass? 

This pur e- food law was made, you 

know 
More than three thousand years a^o ; 
Yet all the wisdom of the years 
Has not improved it, it appears. 
Our butter e'en is purest dope 
As o-le-a-^in-ous as soap ; 
Both made of fats of pig,s and ^oats 
And all we know is that it floats. 



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179 

Some people ^valk the earth today 
Believing,, ^vhen they pass a^vay, 
Their souls v^ill transmigrate to kine, 
Or even pass to ^runtin^ swine. 
If Moses \vould come back today 
And mosey out the stockyards v^ay, 
How would that g,reat lawg,iver feel 
To hear the pi^s in terror squeal ? 

180 

If holy Moses could have seen 
That never-ending, kill -machine, 
Could "watch their stru^^les as they 

rise ; 
Could hear their almost human 

cries : — 
The firm of Stick - em- quick - en - Co. 
Would close up shop and have to ^o ; 
If Moses had his old-time power 
He'd close em up w^ithin an hour ! 



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181 

His sKaft would pierce the armor- 
plate ; 

The Levite tribe would ^uard the 
&ate 

From which a flam.in^ sword would 
sway 

To ^varn the butchers all away. 

And fresher, purer, air would blow. 

Sans oderous perfume, you kno^^' ; 

Chicag,o would rejoice and make 

Of Bubbly Creek a crystal lake ! 

182 

The children of the Hebrew race 
Obeyed the law and ^walked in ^race : 
Some few, alas ! not held in check. 
Worshipped the Heathen ^od Molek : 
A hellish monster, hollow - cast. 
That masked a fiendish, fiery blast; 
In his hot arms extended ^wide 
Poor babes were tortured till they 
died. 



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183 

To mollify tKe g,od Molek 
WitK Bovine face and chimney neck, 
Those cruel heathen malcontents 
Slaugjhtered the helpless innocents. 
Three thousand and some hundred 

years 
Have since elapsed, yet it appears, 
Thoug>h Molek's throne is 

disarrang,ed 
Only the style of ^ods has chang,ed. 



184 

Mammon now sits upon his throne 
With open mouth and belly blown ; 
Look at his greedy face today : 
He eats up all "who come his -way. 
Behold the countless innocents, 
Unaided by Omnipotence, 
Caug,ht in the current of the law 
And drifting into Mammon's maw. 



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185 



From north and south, from east 

and west, 
The heathen comes with shout and 

jest. 
Blowing, horns and beating drums 
To drown the piteous cry that comes. 
Look at the victims in the stream, 
Above the din the babies scream, 
They cry to heaven so fav away 
To save their little lives today. 



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What meaneth then the bleating of the Lambs 1 



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THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN 

OO you Kear tKe children weeping,, 
O my brothers, 
Ere the sorrow comes with years ? 
They are leaning their youn^ heads against 

their mothers. 
And that cannot stop their tears. 
The youn^ lamhs are bleating in the meadows ; 
The youn^ birds are chirping in the nest ; 
The young, fawns are playing with the 

shadows ; 
The young, flowers are blooming, toward 

the west; 
But the youn^, youn^ children, O my Brothers 
They are weeping bitterly ! 
They are weeping in the playtime of the others, 
In the country of the free. 

Now tell the poor youn^ children, 

O my brothers. 
To look up to him and pray 
So the blessed One, Who blesseth all the others, 
Will bless them another day. 
They answer, "Who is God, that He should 

hear us. 



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While tKe rusKin^ of tKe iron wheels is stirred ? 
When we sob aloud the human creatures 

near us 
Pass Ly, hearing not, or answer not a >;vord! 
And we hear not — for the wheels in their 

resounding, — 
Strang,ers speaking, at the door ; 
Is it likely, God, w^ith Ang,els sinking, round Him 
Hears our w^eeping, any more? " 

And well may the children weep before you ; 

They are weary e're they run ; 

They have never seen the sunshine nor 

the g,lory 
Which is brig,hter than the sun : 
They know the ^rief of man, but not the 

wisdom ; 
They sink in man's despair, without its calm 
Are slaves, w^ithout the liberty in Christdom, 
Are martyrs, by the pan^ without the palm, 
Are worn, as if with a^e, yet unretrievin^ly 
No dear remembrance keep, — 
Are orphans of the earthly love and heavenly: 
Let them weep ! let them weep ! 



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They look up with their pale and sunken faces, 

And their look is dread to see, 

For they mind you of their ang,els in their 

places. 
With eyes meant for Deity : 
"Ho^v lon^," they say, *' how lon^, 

O cruel nation, 
Will you stand to move the world, 

on a child's heart, 
Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation 
And tread onward toward your throne 

amid the mart ? 
Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants, 
And your purple shows your path ; 
But the child's sob curseth deeper in the 

silence 
Than the strong man in his wrath ! " 

Elizabeth Browning 




186 




187 



HE s^veetest smiles come after 
tears 
Com.m.in^lin^ with our hopes 
and fears ; 
The purest ^old must have alloy, 
And so must every earthly joy. 
With all their dull, nomadic life, 
Marked by continued stress and 

strife, 
The Hebrews in their humble way 
Enjoyed the first thanksgiving day. 

The passover was first kept there, 
A sacred feast of fast and prayer, 
To celebrate the happy day 
When Israel made its ^et - away. 
Each to the tabernacle came 
And, in the ^reat Jehovah's name 
They offered lambs and olive oil 
And choicest products of the soil, 



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188 



189 



And Moses ^ave his wandering flock 

A fatherly, judicial talk ; 

He told them of the promised Land 

And all the blessings close at hand. 

He read to them his book of law, 

A perfect tome without a flaw : 

It is our basic law today — 

None better on our books they say. 



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It was the law of government 
Of people by their own consent ; 
No soulless corporations there ! 
No g,rasping, grafters anywhere ! 
Look at the railroad octopus 
And what it's putting over us ; 
If Moses came to court today 
What would that honest jurist say ? 



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190 

One ni^Kt I saw him in a dream, 
Our meeting place a court supreme ; 
A fat old jud^e presided there. 
And dozed in comfort in his chair : 
A crippled man with carew^orn face 
Had sued the "Road" that ruled 

the place ; 
I listened, and I heard his name — 
I heard the justice of his claim. 



191 

When all the evidence was in 
The *' jud^e a — hemm-ed, it is a sin 
To put the Road to such expense 
And brin^ such worthless evidence. " 
Sadly, the plaintiff left the court — 
I heard a thunderous report ; 
"Where is the judg,e, where did he 
blow? " 
I asked, and Moses seemed to know. 



M'Wi-0l''l^'(£-^-^ 




Ye FOURI'H BOOK. 



^^NLY One Jud^e sat in Israel's 
^""^ Court of Appeals— Just Moses; 
There was only ONE Supreme. 
Court, and there is only ONE 
today. There are many limited 
courts, miscalled supreme — iJJISf 
The LIMIT of HUMAN LAW ! 




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E read in Numbers, cKapter 
ten, 
How Moses called his fi^htin^ 
men ; 

His trumpet, sounding loud and lon^, 
Brou^Kt forth a hundred thousand 

strong ! 
The tribes were numbered and 

assig,ned. 
Their rank and functions were 

defined ; 
The tribe of Levi helped the priests, 
Assisting them at all their feasts. 



Aaron and Sons had been ordained 
And sacerdotal rights obtained, 
To hold in perpetuity, 
Supported by gratuity. 
Aaron was chosen first hi^h priest, 
His office made him ^reat, at least : 
His virtues never could atone 
For all his faults, v^ere he alone. 



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And Sister Miriam, by tKe way, 
Poor sufFrag,ette of common clay, 
With Brother Aaron had conspired 
To have their brother Moses fired. 
*Twas for this bold conspiracy 
The maid was touched ^vith leprosy ; 
Why Aaron should escape scot-free 
Has puzzled wiser men than me ! 



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Moses, the man most truly ^reat, 
Divinely marked each human trait ; 
No epoch since the world be^an 
Has shown so g,rand and ^ood a man. 
If Bible truth is what you seek, 
There never ^vas a man more meek ; 
With just enoug,h of venial sin 
To prove him flesh, of human kin. 



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Reared apart from Israel's race, 
He found their destiny and place ; 
And from the scourg,e of Pharaoh's 

hand 
He turned them toward the Promised 

Land. 
The Lord communed with him alone : 
Through Moses' prayers His mercy 

shown ; 
And when through grievous sin they 

fell 
He saved them, on the brink of hell ! 



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Pastors ! Ministers of Grace ! 

Are you taking Moses' place? 

Society Kas work for you 

In gilded Kails and Kovels too. 

Aloft, a cloud of sentiment 

Is resting o'er the churcKly tent! 

That cloud is sure to break some day 

And sweep a church or two away. 



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The suffragette is in the land 
And wants mere man to understand 
Woman seeks emancipation 
By working out her own salvation. 
No modem woman, now depends 
On man alone to shape her ends ; 
She knows the ^reat Creator's plan « 
She wants to help ; to uplift man ! 



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Look upward, man, toward tKe sky : 
The solar system m.oves on Ki^h ; 
Were Earth to shift its ordered place 
'Twould wipe out all the human race. 
And yet our social system moves 
In dang,erous, disordered grooves ; 
Let noble woman take her place 
With man, she will redeem the race ! 

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Hark ! hear the distant thunder roar 
The hail is pounding, hear it pour ! 
The lig,htnin^ flashes o'er the earth : 
New Thought is here — a glorious 

birth! 
Away, the storm is sw^eepin^ all : 
King,doms totter, barriers fall ! 
Blow ! all the pomp of yesterday ! 
Blow, reeking, rotten thrones away! 



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To the Kistoric Mount of Hor 
The army came and camped once 

more ; 
For Aaron 'twas the final scene : 
He shed his mortal coil, I mean. 
Eleazar was on hard to claim 
The vestments in the family name ; 
He dropped a sympathetic tear 
With Uncle Moses at the bier. 

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When next they marched the 

Israelites 
Came upon the Moabites ; 
Their numbers scared old King» Balak 
Who sought a curse to turn them 

back. 
Baalam, a famous g,entile seer, 
The monarch summoned to appear ; 
And bribed him with a goodly purse 
To blast the Hebrews with a curse. 



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And that is how it came to pass 
That Balaam, rode forth on his ass ; 
Leading a host of Moabites, 
He went to ^et the Israelites. 
Tell the story? not for me ! 
Turn to Numbers, chapter three ; 
Professor Wise, in Balaam's class 
May learn a lesson from the ass ! 



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Ofttimes the colleg,e pedag,o^ue 
Misinterprets the Decalogue ; 
And presidents who seem all wise 
Encourage their convenient lies. 
Cold trusty steel and standard oil 
Are buying, plastic brains to spoil : 
Poor silly asses on the tracks 
With g,reedy Balaams on their backs ! 

And though I bestow all my g,oods to feed 
the poor, and though I g,ive my body to be burned 
and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 

1 Cor. XIII, 3. 



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JUST FOR TO-DAY. 



)RD, for to-morrow and its needs I do not pray; 
' Keep me,.my God, from stain of sin just for to-day; 
Let me no wrong or idle word untlunking say. 
Set Thou a seal upon my lips just for to-day. 
Let me both diligently work and duly pray. 

Let me be kind in word and deed, just for to-day. 
Let me in season, Lord,, be grave, in season gay; 
So for to-morrow and its needs I do not pray, 

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Jl IVuh For You. 

Sweet as Ike soq^s which the robins smf 

Pure as the flow of a cjryjial spring. 

Deep as the depths of a mothers toVe^ 

True as^our fki/h in the Gocf fihoyi*; 

hJth ahan^estofsmi/es ani/ a /^mt'ne of tears, 

Throtifh all the course of^t/ie com/ny^ears. 

So sweet, soptireK so deep, so frue, 

pe the Joy Mte holds in store /orj/^ou. 




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'THICS and due economy 
Are ur^ed in Deuteronomy ; 
The application of the law, 
Simply defined as Moses saw- 
Wholesome without equivocation, 
A ^uide to virtue and salvation ; 
It was the ^ood man's master book. 
The last one of the Pentateuch, 



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And yet some authors ask today : 
" Who was this Moses, anyway ? " 
Deep down within our consciousness 
We know a man, we must confess, 
The only man in all creation 
Who thinks he's a re - incarnation ; 
He has our Moses beat a mile 
With vi^or- plus, in every style. 



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He's versed in every -olo^y : 

Look up recent chronolog,y ; 

Who Kelped the cowboys round up 

cattle ? 
Who led the rou^h - necks on to 

tattle ? 
Who chased the fearsome grisly bear? 
Who tracked the rhino to his lair ? 
Who crushed to earth the muckrake 

worm ? 
Who found the mollycoddle ^erm ? 

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Who patronized phonetic spellers ? 
Who wrote the only six best sellers? 
Who formed the Ananias club ? 
Who ^vas it that he tried to snub ? 
Who ever made a big,g,er bluff ? 
Who thinks we haven't had enoug,h ? 
Who is this paraxon ? I say, 
Who has us ^oin^, who, I pray ? 



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At last they came to Jordan's banks 
And offered prayer in grateful 

thanks ; 
Before them spread the Promised 

Land: 
The ^rand fruition ^vas at hand ! 

There Moses ^ave his tired flock 

His blessing,, and a farewell talk ; 

There, with the long, -sought ^oal 

in sig,ht 
The Good Man smiled a last 

GoodNi^ht! 

That brave and loyal son of Nun : 
Joshua, the intrepid one, 
Israel's leader now became 
And battled in Jehovah's name. 
Through Jordan's flow a path ran dry 
Which let the Hebrew warriors by. 
The Book of Joshua tells you more. 
From chapter one to twenty-four. 

Deut. XXXIV, 9. 



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Ere closing, I would like to quote 
A law or two tKat Moses ^vrote ; 
So sapient and so versatile, 
He makes us weep, or makes us smile. 
His mission was to lead Kis race 
And show tKe doubting, ones their 

place ; 
His ^word has ruled in a^es past — 
Unto the end his law ^vill last. 



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ye arbiters of the style ! 

Truly, you ' 11 find it \vorth the while 
To read a verse or two in Deut 
Ere making, that man-tailored suit. 
Did Dr. Mary Walker see 
What's writ in Deuteronomy ? 

1 quote a verse or t^vo below — 
It's possible she didn't know ! 



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O yes, it's true sKe has tKe rig,ht 
To put the lingerie out of sig,ht ; 
An Act of Congress stands today 
And g,ives her trousers rig,ht-of-way. 
But did they know the ancient law 
That stands today without a flaw? 
The law was written lon^ a^o — 
It's probable they didn't know! 

" The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth 
unto a man, neither shall a man put on a w^oman's 
garment, for all that do so are an abomination to the Lord 
thy God ! "— Deut. XXII, 5. 

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For you, O fairies of the stag,e 
There's ^rave reproof upon this pag,e ; 
Wear more of vesture, less of fringe 
On Moses' Law do not impinge. 
Yes, you may cut an ample slit 
Upon thy vesture, I admit — 
Until we have the stepless car 
It must he cut — but not too far ! 

" Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters 
of thy vesture wherewith thou coverest thyself ! " 

Deut. XXII, 12. 



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Parents ! tis wise to searcK tKe Book 
The fifth one of the Pentateuch ; 
In chapter twenty-t^vo please read 
And unto Moses' law ^ive heed. 
And you, O jud^e ! you must of 

course 
Read up the la^v to ^rant divorce ; 
There's something, you may overlook : 
In justice, you must read the book! 

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For men w^ho lived in Moses' day 
Were just the same frail, common 

clay; 
Prone to sin, like Eden's pair — 
Cursed by the God who put them 

there ! 
We kno\\;^ that a Redeemer came 
Who healed the blind, the sick and 

lame ; 
His blood has ^vashed the curse away 
And broug,ht the world a brighter 

day! 



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CHIS now completes my little book 
My version of the Pentateuch ; 
And though the story is quite 
old 
I fancy it is newly told. 
The World is just the same old place 
Revolving in the same old space ; 
Illumined ty the same old Sun 
That shines and smiles for everyone. 



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In reading Bible history 

We tread a realm of mystery ; 

The human story therein told 

New fenerations will unfold. 

The World's a stag,e, and Life's a play 

That we are acting every day : 

Directed by Almighty po^wer 

We come, and live our little hour ! 




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NCEASINGLY, the years roll by 
Millions are Lorn, and millions 
die ; 

Who knows the ^reat Creator's plan 
That holds the destiny of Man ? 
Wonders of Science and Invention 
May yet disclose the Grand Intention ! 
Seek not the myth, Perennial Youth : 
Seek till you find Eternal Truth ! 



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Why boast of breeding, rank or race ? 
What matters pedig,ree or place ? 
Herein is traced the family tree 
Of prince and pauper, you and me. 
Listen to Nature, and obey 
Her g,entle teaching,s, and you may 
Hold hig,h your head amon^ the ^reat 
Nor bend to kin^ nor potentate. 




loetn anb Sculptural besii^n bg 
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THE PROPHET 

Who read the writing on the wall 

Of the dethronement and the fall 

Of Kaisers, Kin^s and Czars. 



(2JtHE doom of Europe's Monarchies is writ upon the wall 
Vly And their proud thrones are tottering : — stand back 
and let them fall ; Great TOLSTOY, who appealed 
for bleeding- Russia in his day, Bequeathed the World this 
Vision — construe it as you may. 

^^:^bi8 18 a IRevelation of 
C^J events of a IDlnivers- 
^^^ al character wbicb 
must 8bortli2 come to pass: 

Zbciv apiritual outlince are now be- 
fore m^ c^cB. II eee floating upon tbe 
surface of tbe sea of buman fate 
tbe \)\XQC eilbouette of a nut)e woman* 
©be i0t witb ber beaut?, poiee, ber 
smile, ber jewels ^^ a euper^lDenus* 
IRations rueb mabli? after ber, eacb 
of tbem eager to attract ber eepeciaU 



l^. But 6be, l\\\c an eternal courtesan, 
fUrte voitl) alL ass? Hn bet bair 
ornamente, of Mamonbe anb rubiee, 
10 engravet) ber name, ''Commercial^ 
tem/' H0 alluring an& bewitcbing 
a0 0be 0eem0t mucb destruction an& 
agoni? follow in ber wafte^ Iber breatb, 
reeMng of 6or&i& traneactionSt ber 
voice of metallic cbaracter lilie golt), 
anb ber looft of greet) are eo mucb 
poieon to tbe nations wbo fall victims 
to ber cbarms* 

Wi)ut tETorcfjeg of Corruption 

Hnt) bebolJ), sbe bas tbree gigantic 
arms witb tbree torcbes of universal 
corruption in ber banJ)s» ^be first 
torcb represents tbe flame of Mart 
tbat tbe beautiful courtesan carries 
from Citi? to Citi? an& Country to 
Countri?* patriotism answers witb 
f lasbes of bonest flame, but tbe enb 
is a roar of guns ant) musl^ets* 

^be secont) torcb bears tbeA«? 
flame of bigotry anJ) bi^pocris?* lit 



ligbte tbe lamps onli? in temples anD 
on tbe altars of sacreJ) Institutions* 
lit carries tbe see5 of falsiti? an& 
fanaticism* lit MnMes tbe min&s tbat 
are still in craMes anb follows tbem 
to tbeir graves* 

^be tbirt) torcb is tbat of tbe law, 
tbat dangerous foundation of all un^ 
autbentic traMtions, wbicb first 
J)oes its fatal voorh in tbe famil?, 
tben sweeps tbrougb tbe larger worl& 
of literaturct art ant) statesmansbip* 

M Curope in Jf lameg 

Zbc great conflagration will start 
about 1912, set bi? tbe torcb of tbe 
first arm in tbe countries of Soutb^ 
eastern lEurope* lit will &evelop into 
a 5estruction anb calamity? in 1914* 
lln tbati?ear II see all lEurope in 
flames anb bleeMng* II bear tbe as& 
lamentations of buge battle*=fiel5s* 

But in tbe i?ear 1915 tbe strange 
figure from tbe IRortb ajss? a new 



IRapoleon enters tbe etage of tbe 
bloo&i? &rama* Ibe ie a man of little 
militanetic training, a writer or a 
journaliet, but in bia grip moet of 
Europe will remain until 1925* 

Zhc enb of tbe great calamity? will 
mark a new political era for tbe olb 
worl&* ^Tbere will be left no empire0 
or hingbome, but tbe voorlt) will form 
a federation of tbe 1Ilnite& Statea of 
IRatione* Zbcvc will remain onli? 
four great giant6:**='tbe Hnglo^^SaxoUt 
tbe Xatin0, a5& tbe Qlave an& tbe 
flDongoliana* 

^ i^eto €tf)ical €ra 

Hfter tbe i^ear 1925 II eee a cbange 
in religiou0 sentiment* Ebe 6econ& 
torcb of tbe courtesan bas brougbt 
about tbe fall of tbe Cburcb* ^be 
etbical i&ea bas almost vanisbeb* 
Ibumaniti? is witbout moral feeling* 
But tben a great reformer arises* 
Tbe will clear tbe worl& of tbe relics 



of monotbeiem an& lai? tbe corner 
0tone of tbe temple of pantbeiem* 
(Bob, 0oult epirit ant) immortaUti? 
will be molten in a new furnace, anJ) 
H 6ee tbe peaceful beginning of an 
etbical era* ^be man betermineb to 
tbi0 mieeion is a flDongolian Slav* 
Tbe i0 alreabi? walMng tbe eartb**^ 
a man of active affaire* Ibe bimeelf 
i^ocB not now realise tbe mieeion 
aeeigneb to bim bi? Superior powere* 

Hub, bebol&t tbe name of tbe 
tbirb torcbt wbicb bae alreat)? begun 
to beetroi? our family relatione, our 
6tant)ar&0 of art anb morale* ^be 
relation between woman anb man ie 
accepted ae a proeaic partnerebip of 
tbe eexee* Hrt bae become realietic 
begeneraci?* 



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political an& religioue bieturb- 
ancee bave ebaften tbe spiritual as? 
founbatione of all natione* 



3^ace Wiav& Strangle ^rosregs 

QnV^ email apote bere anb tbcre 
ba\>e remaineJ) untoucbet) b? tboee 
tbree beetructive flamee* Zhc antl^ 
national ware in jEuropCt tbe claee 
war of Hmerica ant) tbe race ware in 
H6ia bave etrangle&progreee for balf 
a century?* 15^ tben, in tbe mi^Me 
of tbie centurij, H eee a beroine of 
literatnre an& art rieing from tbe 
ranfte of tbe Xatina anb ipereiane, 
tbe worl& of tbe tedious stuff »ssf 
tbe plebeian* 

flt i6 tbe ligbt of ei^mboliem tbat 
6ball outebine tbe ligbt of tbe torcb 
of Commercialiem* as> nn place of 
poli^gami? anb monogami? of toba? 
tbere will come a poet^ogami^ ajg? 
relatione of tbe eexee baeeb funba^ 
mentalli? on tbe poetic conceptions 
of life. aj& 

Hnb II eee tbe nations growing 
larger anb realising tbat tbe alluring 
woman of tbeir bestini? is after all 



notbing but an illuelon* Zhcvc will 
be a time wben tbe worib will bave 
no U0e for Hrmiee »» bijpocritical 
religions anb begenerate art* Xife ie 
evolution, anb evolution xb bevelop- 
ment from tbe eimple to tbe more 
complicateb forme of minb anb bobip* 

II 6ee tbe paeeing ebow of tbe 
worlb^brama, in ita preeent form, 
bow it fabee lihe tbe glow of evening 
upon tbe mountaine* ®ne motion of 
tbe banb of Commercialism anb a 
new bietori? begins* 



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Nevertheless, hear thou now this word that 1 
speak in thine ears, and the ears of all the people. 

The prophets that have been before me and 
before thee of old prophesied both against many 
Countries, and against great Kingdoms, of War, 
and of Evil, and of Pestilence. JJ& 

When the word of the Prophet shall come to 

pass, then shall it be known that the Lord hath 

truly sent him. 

Jeremiah xxviii, 7 - 9. 




A CHANCE FOR AN INTERVIEW 

Hello, Woodrow ! I'm looking' for Pershin^- 
Do you know wherethe General is? 

W. — I fear I must answer you rudely 

And say that is none of your biz. 

If you pardon my style of expression — 

(With the English I 'm taking a chance) 
Persh is " backing me up " very closely, 
May I say: over 




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GETTING A-CROSS 

WITH A 

A •.• PRAYER! 

AT EVENTIDE 
When v/e decide 
To rest our head 
We ^o to Led : 
When overwrought 
And Sleep will not 
Take us away : 

THEN,-.' THEN •/ WE •/ PRAY! 
Thank You, dear God, for Eyes to see 
Thy Earth: so fair and brig,ht. I close 
them now, that I may see Thy Heaven 
THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT! 

We close our Eyes 
OUR MONO FLIES 
WE FLY AWAY 
FROM YESTERDAY! 
We ne'er come Lack 
Upon our track : 

IT'S PASSED 

FOREVER AND 

FOR AYE! IS 

YESTERDAY! 



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fURGE out of every Keart lurking ^rud^e. 
Give us ^race and strength to forbear and to 

presevere. Offenders, ^ive us ^race to accept and 
to forg,ive offenders. Forg,etful ourselves, Kelp 
us to bear cheerfully the for^etfulness o£ others. 
Give us courag,e, and gaiety and a quiet mind. 
Spare us to our friends ; soften us to our enemies. 
Bless us, if may be, in all our innocent endeav- 
ors : If it may not, ^ive us the streng,th to encounter 
that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, 
constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in 
all changes of fortune, and down to the ^ates of 
death, loyal and loving, one to another. 

Robert Louis Stevenson, 



Hope, Hope alway ! 

Great Hopes have made tKe mighty 

of today ; 
It is tKe seed that flowers, thrives 

and ^rows : 
Its limits ? the Creator only knows ! 

All that we would put into our living 

We could : 
If all that we could put into for^ivin^ 

We would. 



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tlTfje purglar 

ONE of tKose notle women, who 
are ever reaching out to help 
the down-and-outs, returned 
home late one evening to find 
a sure-enoug,h burglar in her apartments. 
With the characteristic san^ - froid of 
of those sterling workers, she hade him 
keep the jewels he had taken, and talked 
to him in a kind, sympathetic voice, and 
touched his heart in a way that only 
those angels of the slums know how. 
Back to his childhood days she broug,ht 
him, to his mother's knee, where he had 
first learned to pray. 




I am the Good Shepherd and know my sheep, and am 
known of mine. John X, 14. 



THE BURGLAR 



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** PerKaps one little prayer 
Still Keld in Memory's cKain ? " 
Yes Ke would kneel that moment 
And say Kis prayer ag,ain. 

** Our Father" — then he faltered, 
The words refused to come 
Though prayer was overflowing 
The heart of that poor hum. 

At last he spoke : ** dear lady, 
I sure do want to pray: 
If God is hep to rummies 
I've got a heap to say ! " 
*' Pray man ! the prayer will reach 
the Throne 
That rings sincere and true ; 
God sees your heart, by it alone 
He always measures you ! " 




Cfje (J^utcaSt'S draper 

LMIGHTY God, gee, how 
1 wanna pra/ to You. '.* I m 
sorry I m not Kep to dc swell talk^ 
an if il: s all de same 1 11 try to Kand 
it toj>^ou ih me own wa/. .'. I know 
yer wise to me God : I m ih Lad^ 
dat s a cincK. 1 wahna trow up me 
Kahd ah butt-in on de squar deal^ an 
if 1 slips a cog^ Lord^ gimme de 
huhcK^ an I II owh up ah play fair. 

Dis is de straight goods from me 
heart. I sure do wanna Kike on de 
right road. Show it to me God: X*'^ 
Help a poor sihner : make me a 
wihher. X*'^ Amen. 




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^olbierg of ^eace* 

Adapted from Chas. Wesley's "The Whole Armor.' 

OLDIERS of Peace arise 
And put your armor on, 
Strong in the strength which 
God supplies 
Through His eternal Son. 
Strong is the Lord of Hosts, 
And in His mig,hty power. 
Who in the ^reat Jehovah trusts 
Is more than conqueror. 

Stand, then, against your foes 

In close and firm array ; 

Legjions of evil fiends oppose 

Throug,hout this troublous day. 

Go meet the sons of ni^ht 

And mock their vain design 

Armed with the Truth and Heavenly 

Lig,ht 
And Grace and Love divine. 



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Follow the Prince of Peace 
Beside the waters still : 
In pastures ^reen He brings surcease 
Where you may rest at will. 
E'en through the valley drear 
Where dark'nin^ shadows fall, 
No evil spirit can come near 
While God reigns over all. Psaim xxiii 

Dear Lord, it is Thy will 

That Peace on Earth abide 

Thy mandate is Thou shalt not hill : 

Behold! It is defied. 

Hark to the orphans' prayer 

The w^ives' and mothers' call ! 

Protect them with Thy Shepherd's 

care 
And let their tyrants fall. 

And the peace of God ■which passeth all understanding 
shall keep your hearts and minds. — Phil. IV, 7. 



Clje i^efugee's draper 

Dedicated to the Ref ug,ees of San Francisco Earthquake. 

OLord ! I humbly kneel in prayer, 
I ask Thy sovereign aid ; 
In pity, save me from despair, 
Protect me Lord, I am afraid ! 

A pilgrim in this earth- torn vale. 
Prostrate, I feel Thy power ; 
I rise, I walk ! my footsteps fail : 
Lord help me in this crucial hour : 

Ah ! Faith and Hope return to me ; 

I feel a wondrous thrill : 

My fears depart, my soul is free 

To watch and pray, and do Thy will. 

Dear Lord ! contritely I confess 
My wav'rin^ faith in Thee, 
When, in my hour of dire distress, 
Hell 's scorching arms encircled me. 

Now, in my peaceful hour of prayer, 
My Faith is strong in Thee ; 
And Peace and Hope put out despair : 
Lord, do what 'er Thou will with me ! 



Why are ye troubled ? And why do thoughts arise in 
your hearts. — Luke XIV, 38. 






HERE comes to all a tKoug,htful 

hour, 

A sentient calm 
A thoug,htful mood, 

A careful retrospect, a prospect 
fraug,ht 
With hope and strong desire 
And earnest, thoughtful prayer ; 

An effort to unbind 

The lon^ beleaguered soul ; 
To know the Truth, 
To see the Lig,ht, 
To find the Way : 

To take the hand that leads the spirit 
Up and on, alon^ the way 
The ^vorry and the wraith. 

The fallible and fear, the g,loom and 
^lame ; 
The failure and the fate 
The cloud and storm of sensuous 
trends 

To where life sits in sweet repose, 



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Exploits in ^lad emprise, 
Surveys tKe barmy vast 
Around, above, beneath — 

The active matrix of Creation's 
worlds -— 
Joins in the unsoundin^ tan^, 
The everlasting son^, 

The chorus ^rand, sun^ by the rise 
and fall 

And ebb and flow, 

Resilience and calm 
Of the eternal seas of God's Infinity 

Where suns no longer set nor rise 

But ride full-orbed 

The Eternal day 

And shed the g,lory and the sheen 
Reflected in the Shimmering Sea 
Of Elohim's unsullied Immortality: 
" And there shall be no ni^ht there : 
And they need no candle 
Neither lig,ht of the sun ; 

For the Lord ^iveth them Li^ht : 
And they shall rei^n 
Forever and ever ! " 

Revelation XXII, 5 



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Snto Cfie ©eptfjjs 

O w^Kere the willow 
In silence is w^eepin^ 
Go w^here the ivy 

Is wet with the dew ; 
Kneel ty the ^rave 

Where your loved one is sleeping 
And learn if you can 

What she once was to you. 

Out through the Gates of the W^est 

In her splendor ; 
Out through the Storm-cloud 

That hides her from view ; 
Into the Clearness 

Of Heaven's Blue Yonder 
She lives with the Ang,els 

Who once lived with you ! 



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Mourn not O, Children 

Why, why are you weeping 
Ang,els are smiling 

Out from the pure Blue ; 
Mother is with them 

And ever is keeping 
The Soul - love that Heaven 

Is holding for you ! 

For I will turn their mourning into joy, and 

comfort them, and make them rejoice from 

their sorrow. — Jeremiah xxxi, 13. 

X^ x^ 

Into the depths 

Let some Soul-word be spoken, 
Spoken to Her, 

The best friend you e'er knew ; 
Love that is Soul-love 

Can never be broken 
When Soul answers Soul 

I am still one with You ! 



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Soliloquy 

Though the willow in silence is 

weeping 
Though the ivy is wet with the dew : 
The Love that is Soul-love is keeping 
The Love that no other Soul knew. 
Ever on ^while the star lamps are 

swin^in^ 
Sweet incense o'er woodland and 

deep, 
The Love that Her Soul-love is 

sin^in^ 
Is sin^in^ her loved ones to sleep ! 




" Out through the Gates of the West in Her splendor " 



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What ! Out of senseless Nothing to provoke 

A conscious Something to resent the yoke 

Of unpermitted Pleasure under pain 

Of Everlasting Penalties, if broke ! 

Omar LXXVIII. 

Take all the pleasure, as it comes 

your way ; 
Live w^Kile you live, ye Cloisterman 

doth pray : 
" O Lord ! Thou ^avest us life, and left 

us free 
To live in pleasure, ^while we live 

in Thee ! " 

Freely, from Life's fountain, take 

the sparkling draught 
And you' 11 die happy, ^when 

you know you've laughed ! 

O Lord, by these things men live and in all these 
things is the life of my spirit, so wilt Thou recover me and 
make me to live. — Isaiah XXXVIII, 16. 



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i^equiegtant in ^ace 

ONOR the noble soldier dead, 
With flowers deck his lowly ted ; 
The loyal Blue and loyal Gray 
Are sleeping 'neath one fla^ today ! 



Immortal fame to leader - braves 
Give them full meed of felory ; 
The marble tablets o'er their graves 
In requiems tell their story. 

Brin^ flowers for the men who fell ; 
Who sleep in lonely unmarked 

g,raves ; 
Grand monuments will never tell 
The names of hosts of silent braves ! 

Now rest in Peace : thy children pray, 
A hundred millions true and strong ! 
Soldiers ! a Nation bows today 
In g,rateful prayer, in praise and son^. 



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OW sunligKt steals away 
Hush ! tis tKe close of day ; 
Souls of the Earth now pray : 
Souls of the Earth now in the 
Silence see 
An opening, vision of Eternity ! 
Li^ht from the World 's uncrown 

In Silence settles down 
And stretching "wider than Earth's 
foam -flecked sea 
Is Elohim's ung^rown Eternity : 
The Destiny to be ! 
Where breaks the Waveless Wave : 
The Destiny to be ! 



Give all you have 

Of Love, and Joy, and Mind, 

The more you ^ive 

The g,reater store you'll find ; 

The lowly Nazarene 

Who taug,ht this lessson true 

Gave all He had — 

He ^ave His life, for you ! 



^ Monzt of ^tlettt Prager 




Mission House for the Deaf, Liverpool, England 




'OU play to win tKe Game of Life 
and strive for Wealth and Fame, 
for^ettin^, in all tKe strenuous 

strife, many points tKat will win the 

Game. 

^P^hou^h least, the points of Wealth 
and Fame shine out in the bright 
limelight; while points that cinch the 
desperate ^ame are obscure, and lost to 
sig,ht. 

iOme ^et discouraged at the start, and 
lie do^vn alon^ the ^way ; while 
others play a valiant part and win ^ood 
points each day. 

^fcood winners will lend a helping 
hand to losers, from day to day; 
and use the power at their command to 
show them the winning w^ay. 

JfflMfhen Life is done, that ends the 
play — what matters Wealth and 
Fame : your score will win on Judgment 
Day if you've played an Honest Game. 



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Oh tKat one would hear me ! behold 
my desire is that the Almig,hty would 
answer me, and that mine adversary had 
written a book. 

Surely, I would take it upon my 
shoulder and bind it as a crown to me. 

Job XXXI, 35, 36 




A crazy man often seems polite and 
exceedingly courteous. He is misunder- 
stood. It is pure pity for you whom he 
thinks the real nut. Get me ? 

A youn^ fool may ^et wise : an old 
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HERE bright the li^Kt 
Falls on the plain 
Of Indra s sand ; 
The ancient seers 
All rise a^ain 
And bless the land. 

The modern curse 

Of Graft and Greed 
They Overpower : 

And plant instead 
By Occult deed 
Beyond the dead 

The Soul's sweet dower. 

While Eons mark 

The ^vay they came 
Throug,h lig,ht and dark 
To spell the name 

Of Love to men 
The Indra's hark, 
Then sin^ a^ain ! 



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The thunderstorm by li^htnin^ 

driven 
Plays round my Soul 's immortal 

brow ; 
Still all content within my Heaven 
I rest, and fear I do not know : 
For He who made Creation's form 
Surveys, and well controls the storm. 

When you with God in unison 
Divinely are combined 
You walk upright and face the Sun 
And shadows leave behind. 



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When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid : Yea 
thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. 

Proverbs III, 24. 



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HEN Love w^as youn^ 
The skies ^vere clear, 
And Beauty blossomed 
Everywhere : 
When Love was old 

It ^wiser g,rew 

And loved the thing,s 

It never knew 



When it was youn^ : 

It had to learn 
The worth of Soul 

At every turn : 
And learning well 

It learned to say 
"Not Beauty's shrine 

But God in clay!" 




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IFE is a fountain 

Full and free 
And wide as beings ran^e ; 
It 's streams are 
Immortality : 
In life and death exchange. 

And on the breast 

of Life's ^reat flood 

Truth moves forevermore 
While the whole 
Universe of God 

Is passed from shore to shore. 




Truth is mighty and must prevail 
O 'er Error's storm of leaden hail ! 



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ULTIVATE the human graces, 
Fit yourself into the w^eather ; 
Things will surely ^o to pieces 
If they do not hold together. 

Sounds like a Visdom, Rachel ! 

Find your place amon^ your brothers 
Pull tog^ether with the tide ; 
Talk it over with the others 
Get their view ere you decide. 

Not mit customers, Jokey ! 

When your craft is tossing headlong 
Buffeted by threat'nin^ -wave — 
That 's the time ! when you are in 

wron^ 
Skill and Patience often save. 

Grossarti§ ! Hanna, nichtwahv ? 

The Philosophers say that Knowledge 
is the discovery of Ignorance. 




(Sibe Summer a Cfjance 

"^aia iomsome spring botlj xtesih in tI|B lap of grfzzkb pitnter 

She fain would bide "with us a"while 
And lure us with her Siren smile ; 
Beg,one ! thou false and chilly Miss 
We lon^ for Summer's warmer kiss. 

OW ^when the roses are 
tloomin^ 
Gentle Spring,, you may say 
your farewell ; 
Saucy face, so chill and assuming 
Reveals what your words will not 
tell. 

Miss Spring, youVe worn out your 

welcome. 
You were scheduled to fly lon^ a^o, 
That airship should certainly ^o 

some — 
You are breezy and airy — so blow ! 



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True, our poets Kave told of your 

beauty 
And Kave crowned you Queen of 

the May, 
While you g,i^^led and chewed 

tutti - fruitti 
And flirted with Winter, they say. 

Fie ! sat in his lap, you sly coquette, 
And tickled him under the chin ; 
As you coaxin^ly teased 

*'0, don't ^o yet, 
Don't let Madam Summer come in.'* 

But she's coming arrayed in her 

splendor, 
And she' 11 wither you Loth with a 

glance ; 
Joy -Riders and hosts who attend her 
Are shouting " Give Summer a 

Chance! " 

Above was provoked after a succession o£ chilly days 

in late June, in tKa environs of Chi, by the 

tumbling, turbulent waters of the Mich. 



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Some Pilots, in their pious zeal, 
Fail to put-across the Weal — 
The mariners may hear his call 
But do not ^et his drift at all : 

Maundering on Rhetoric's Sea, 
The Preacher sails quite aimlessly- 
Stalled at last on Logic's Bank, 
If no one's hurt the Lord we thank. 

Who cultivates the melancholy 

And thinks it folly 

To be jolly 
Is dead, and is himself the tomb 

Of one cold heart 

That died of ^loom : 
Disturb it not ; just let it rot ! 

The real bunco man is he who tries 
to pass his silence and feloom ofF for 
wisdom and sanctity. 

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down that it will 
sprout a^ain and that the tender branch thereof will not 
cease. Job XIV. 7 



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^ €iti}m of Hion 

T ORD who shall abide in Thy 
-^^ Tabernacle ? 

Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill ? 

He that walketh uprightly and 
worheth righteousness, and 
speaketh the Truth in his heart 

He that backbiteth not with his 
tongue, nor doeth evil to his 
neighbor. 

In whose eyes a vile person is 
contemned. 

But he honoreth them that fear the 
Lord, 

He that swear eth to his own hurt 
and chan^eth not. 

He that putteth not out his money 
to usury, nor taketh reward 
against the innocent. 

He that doeth these things shall 
never be moved. — Psalms, xv. 



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^ Citizen of Cottage (^robe 

A Gentleman is all a man 
Could ever want to be : 
He's Gentle, and Ke's Modest 
And a Prince of Courtesy ; 
He's Generous and For^ivin^ 
And slow to take Offense ; 
He's a Strang,er to Suspicion 
And Deception and Pretence. 

The Gentleman ^oes forth at ease 
In consciousness of Ri^ht : 
He is never Avaricious 
He subdues his Appetite : 
He's Considerate and Tactful, 
He is Genuine, He is True ! 
Friend ! If you're not a Lady 
I hope that HE is YOU ! 

Don't worry : ever do and say 
The kindest things 
The kindest way. 




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WENGLI was a Swiss patriot 
and reformer, wKo, throughout 
his life was an exemplification of 
the hig,h spiritual and moral character 
that is developed in Man through close 
association with ideal Woman. X^^ He 
imbibed his earlier education on his 
mother's knee, throug,h the medium of 
Bible stories. He was a champion of 
Liberty, and believed in the ultimate 
emancipation of Woman, whom he under- 
stood and worshipped. 

For a time he was barred from close 
communion by virtue of his sacred office ; 
but not for long,, as one of the earliest 
reforms he succeeded in brin^in^ about 
was the abolition of the law of celibacy, 
which enabled him to complete his life 
and g,ive to the world a fuller conception 
of the ^reat Truths that he was pro- 
mulg,atin^ in that darkened era. 



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The following estimate and appeal 
were inspired during the contemplation 
following, a reading of Zweng,li's whole- 
some and edifying discourses : 

Listen here, Man ! 

You've ^ot to come down to brass 
tacks. 

An honest confession is g,ood for 
the Soul ; 

And an honest estimation is ^ood 
for what ails you. 

The bountiful Giver of life has 

distributed the persimmons 
pretty evenly : 

You pride yourself on your stren^th^ 
but ^when it comes to beauty^ 
Woman has you faded to a 
frazzle ; 



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You are daring and confident : 
very admiratle qualities, but 
tKey often develop into fool- 
hardiness and conceit. 

The unassuming and diffident Woman 
will ^ain and hold your admira- 
tion, and may subdue your daring 
and confidence. 

You are ^reat in action, Woman is 
sublime in suffering; 

You g,o abroad and shine ; Woman 
illumines the home, and her li^ht 
is like a 500-watt flaming arc 
which turns your dinky 10-watt 
into a shadow. 

You summon all your powers o£ 
oratory to convince : Woman 
wins her w^ay by gentleness and 
kindness, smiles and tears. 



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You are mathematical and scientific : 
Woman has taste and artistic 
instincts. 

You think you have superior 

judgment: Woman's jwcZ^ment has 
sensibility to re-enforce it. 

You assume the quality of justice : 
Woman is an An^el of Mercy. 

You have a ru^^ed heart, Woman 
has a loving and tender one. 

Both of you are prone to sin, and 
together, create misery ; your 
courage may prevent it : \^^hen it 
comes, Woman is there to 
relieve it. 

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of 
trouble ; 

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth 

also like a shadow and continueth not. 

Job XIV, 1-14. 




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^i^s sees ttye fotse Creator's plan, 
^i|e fcants to ijelp, to uplift ^illan I 




0ptn tfje (gate 

AY Man, ^ive Woman all Ker due : 
She's Avide awake, and after you ; 
Unto her sway some day you'll 
bo^w — 
Be feood, M^hy not surrender now? 
She's knocking, at the wicket ^ate, 
Swing, it wide, she is your Fate ; 
She wants to come into your life — 
She wants to he more than your wife: 



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She's reading up the Man-made Law^s ; 
Believe me, she has found some flaws ; 
She's g,ettin^ \vise, and learning, fast — 
She's found her ri^ht-of-way at last! 
You've lived for centuries on bluff. 
She's been your slave quite lon^ 

enoug,h ; 
She w^ants to vote, don't let her wait • 
Come on old Man, unlock the Gate ! 



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HEER up, brothers ! the battle is 
on 
The foes are assembled at 
Armag,eddon ; 

There's a stir in Jehoshophat's valley, 
they say 

And the foemen are fig,htin^ like 
demons, today ! 

All over the earth the strug,g,le now 
ra^es 

And the records are growing, on 
History's pa^es ; 

The armies of Truth are valiant and 
strong 

And pushing, the conflict of Ri^ht 
over Wrong, ; 

Black Error is stubborn and \vill 
not be crushed 

Till the war cry of Mortals forever 
is hushed ! 



^it temper tKprannis?! 

And I saw a ^reat white throne and Him that sat on it, 
from Whose face the earth and the Heaven fled away. 

Rev. XX, 11. 

When Napoleon stood a broken force 
on the rock - ribbed isle begirt by the 
shores of the inexorable sea, out of the 
ashes of his former po^ver he saw The 
Great White Throne of Justice rise, 
from Whose face his earth and his heaven 
fled away: 

His iron will and sinewy frame, 
His thirst for power, and rule and 
fame 

Went down as broken reeds before 
the touch of Him Who holds the waters 
in His hand, and all the isles takes up as 
very little thing,s : His g,lory ^vas Am- 
bition's ^vill-"0'the-"^vhisp, incarnadined 
with blood : living as a murderer, dyin^ 
a criminal, buried as a pauper, among,st 
strangers in a strang,er land : 



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" TKis trampler of the world 
Now on the Judgement trumpet "waits ! " 

And all other would-be tramplers 
will one day see The Great White 
Throne of Justice rise, before Whose 
face their strength and power will shrivel 
up and turn to clay : their guilty souls, 
stained by the curse of Cain, will sink to 
deepest Hell, and never rise a^ain ! 

The War of Ri^ht 'gainst selfish 

Mi^ht 
Has lon^ since been declared ; 
You are enlisted in the fi^ht 
Halt ! Soldier, be prepared : 
The hosts of Rig,ht, all fit for fi^ht 
Are marching on, hooray ! 
To War for Ri^ht ! to Hell with 

Mig^ht 
That steals our Rights away ! 



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Like the deep sounding, tan^ of 

Eternity's Sea 
Like the Wind as it sin^s to the 

Shore ; 
Like the shimmering, sheen of God 's 

Infinity- 
Is the son^ that she sin^s evermore : 

Where the ^lory supernal of Elohim's 

throne 
Spreads a mantle of li^ht everywhere 
I meet in a rapture with her who 

has ^one 
And in spirit abide with her there : 

Dream faces that linger in Memory's 

shrine 
And cheer us Ly day and by ni^ht ; 
Faces that g,low with Love that 's 

divine 
And lead us in paths that are rig,ht. 



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iWp #enesig anb €xobug 

N tKe Morning I came 

It was Spring 

And I cried : 

At Noontime came Summer 
I laughed 
In my pride 

SKe passed me in splendor 

Bestowing 

A smile ; 
I loved her and kept her 

In si^ht 

For a while. 

At Even, I rested, 
Sweet Summer 
Had flown 

And left me with Autumn 

Communing, 

Alone ! 
With Autumn, thoug,h wrinkled 

I flirted 

And ^wept 

At Midnight came Winter, 
So Cold: 
And I slept ! 



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CHE BLACK SPIRIT stands ty 
and satiates his accursed soul 
by pillag,e and hy plunder dire, 
while the ^ood earth rocks to 
and fro by shock of ^uns in thunderous 
roar, while rivers at full tide run blood, 
and human forms lie in hug,e -windrows 
piled, to find their way to rest with 
Mother Earth ag,ain throug,h pitch and 
brimstone, oil and fire ; ^vhile fathers 
starve and mothers die from shock, and 
widows till the g,round, and hung,ry 
children, tattered and unkempt, stand 
'round, in sullen protest shivering and 
homeless as Winter ^rim approaches, 
bereft of all save Need and God 's pro- 
tecting arm, while smoking battlefields 
obscure the sky, toward which the help- 
less, hapless turn their faces in despair- 
ing prayer. 



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It is a madman's or^y ; a ^houl-and- 
g,oblin's g,ara.e directed Ly Hell 's Kin^ of 
Devils : 

Who for Kis just and adequate reward 
will have to wait till God Luilds over 
Hell and multiplies its furries multifold : 

Then, then, when he has ^one, o'er 
all Earth's wilds and wolds a mantling 
sheen of Peace and Glory will be spread : 
o'er all the Earth will be The White 
Reflection of The White Effulgence, of 
the White Lig^ht, of The White Glory, of 
The White Throne, of The White Spirit — 

THE WHITE GOD : 

And nothing, shall hurt nor destroy 
in all His Holy Mountain ; He shall lead 
His flock like a Shepherd and father the 
Lambs in His arms. He shall lead them 
unto Living Fountains of Waters, and 
wipe away all tears from their eyes. 

Rev. XXI, 4. 




HEN we have drawn 
our final breath 

We enter Life — 

There is no Death ! 

We terminate 
This mortal state 

And pass beyond through 
God's Great Gate. 

King,s with their swords, who 

drench the field 
Must unto the Grim Reaper yield ; 

And soon or late 

All tow to Fate 
And walk the path Beyond the Gate. 

There is no Victory, O King,s ! 

The Sword returns to you its stints : 

Beyond the Gates 
The Jud^e awaits 

The Kin^ of King»s controls the Fates ! 

Earth is the Shadowed Valley drear 
There is no peace, fi^r pilgrims here 
Like the Eternal Peace, that 'waits 
All Faithful Souls, Beyond the Gates. 



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Old Time is our Banker 
Froin wKom we must borrow 
Every minute we live — 
Today and tomorrow ; 
The rich and the poor, 
The proud and the humble 
Must borrow from him 
Or their Credit will tumble. 



Here is a little 
Checking, Account : 
It sho\vs your Investments 
And the Amount : 
Old Time is a Shyloch 
You cannot forestall : 
He Takes your Capital, 
Surplus and all. 

To every thin^ there is a season, and a time to 
every purpose under the heaven. Eccl. Hi, 1 



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Capital ^tocfe : I 2 3 4 5 6 7 

That's a Week. 

SUNDAY : For a Time-Loan 

Promptly Speak. 

MONDAY : In Milk of kindness 

Take a Share. 

TUESDAY: Save every Minute 

You can spare. 

WEDN'SDAY : Keep the Bonds of 

Love at Par. 

THURSDAY : Bonds of Liberty 

Win the War. 

FRIDAY : Take Time to Check 

The Week's Acc't., 

SATURDAY : Count and Carry 

The Amount. 



A time to ^et and a time to lose ; a time to keep 
silence, and a time to speak. Reel. Hi, 7. 



Three American Beauties 

T SA W a banner waving, in silk and spangles 
wrought. 

And proudly 1 saluted, as it passed ; 
It was a flag so splendid, the best of all, I thought, 

A beauty that could hardly be surpassed. 

T SA W a charming maiden, a bud of seventeen. 

As the Goddess of Liberty enshrined ; 
Her mantle of " Old Glory " eclipsed what I 
had seen. 
More beauty in a flag one could not find. 

T SA W a halting Veteran, one who had fought 
and bled: 
Waving a war-stained banner, all in rags; 
Thrilled, I stood in rapt attention, saluting, as 
I said : 
''There's the beauty and peach of all the flags!'' 




Ht hath no form or comeliness, and when we shall see him 
there is no beauty we should desire him . . . Therefore will 
I divide him a portion with the Great, because he hath poured 
forth his soul unto death. Isaiah 53; 2-12. 



®m (©ton " aibe " Hincoln 

FAIR Nature 's sculptor paused one day 
and sadly looked around 
At myriad forms of Kuman clay in 
^which her g,ifts ^^ere bound ; 
Rulers and statesmen militant cumbered 

the hall of Fame 
But not a single occupant seemed worthy 
of the name. 

When, suddenly, her saddened face 

shone with surpassing li^ht, 
She spoke : "This is the time and place 

to mold a Man aright." 
A soldier's courag,e she combined ^th 

boundless sympathy, 
And (boon to slaves of all mankind) 

^reat love of liberty. 

From blighting prejudice and spite she 

drew no sing,le ^rain. 
In Nature's champion of rig,ht you look 

for them in vain. 



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She searched not Harvard halls nor Yale 
for wisdom's ^erm refined 

But sought a lowly backwoods trail 
among, Earth's common kind. 

For there she found no kindly stock, no 

pride of ancestry, 
No kin from hallowed Plymouth Rock, 

no vaunted pedigree. 
The Sculptor formed her mold of clay, 

A ru^^ed, manly frame, 
And Nature brought to life that day 

" Abe " Lincoln ! Bless his name. 

THE GRAND CHORUS 

To him who found the People's heart 

and g,ently touched the strings, 
Who sweetly swelled the chorus part 

and loved the common things : 
We raise our voice with g,lad acclaim, a 

mighty wave of son^ ! 
A chorus, Father Abraham, a hundred 

million strong ! 



0nv Jfrienbg 

You cannot lose a living Friend, a really, truly Friend ! 
That precious gift of God endures thru life--unto the end. 

/l^jUR old-tiine friends wekno^w about, 
\^ Thoug,h ne^wer friends at times 
we doubt ; 
If they are really friends indeed 
They prove it in the hour of need — 

Tine test will find them out. 

Like sunlit skies on Summer day 
Fair-weather friends smile on our way 
Till troublous clouds obscure the sky: 
When off like craven crows they fly 
From trouble, far away. 

We find a very, very few 
Unselfish friends among, the new ; 
But Oh ! We find pure hearts of ^old 
In friends \ve know as friends of old — 

The steadfast and the true. 



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The friends who smile when we are ^lad 
And sympathize w^hen w^e are sad ; 
Who sacrifice their comfort too 
When we are ill, and feeling blue — 

And things look very bad. 
« 

Lord ! All I ask is one true friend 
To stand by me until the end ; 
With that dear One I'll smile at death 
And pray Thee, with my latest breath 

To bless my loyal friend. 



A few careless words that are written or 
said ; a soft answer suppressed for a harsh one, 
instead ; an enemy's lies or a pretty ^iris's eyes, 
may take all, but a Friend remains till she dies. 



tKfje Eesion of tije Crosis 

^^ Oh ministering angels, oh mothers 

.^^ \ of men ! Thy sons are in trouble, 

and calling, ag,ain ; 

Your babies, the children you nursed 

through the years, are calling to 

you from the valley of tears. 



And, hearing the summons, you answer 

the call ; yea, ea^er and willing 

to sacrifice all ; 
Defying, the poisons of pestilent breath, 

you follow the path to the harvest 

of death. 

'Midst roaring of cannon and bursting of 
shell, you g,o, even unto the por- 
tals of hell ; 

Sustained by your faith in His infinite 
^race to seek for life's spark in 
some woe-stricken face. 



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Your motherly hand on the hot, fevered 

brow assuages the pain and bring,s 

hope to him now; 
The water you ^ive him he eagerly sips ; 

while a whisper of g,ratitude 

comes from his lips. 

You bandage the wounded and quivering 

limb as tenderly as you \^^ould 

do it for Him, 
Who so loved the world that He willing,- 

ly feave His most precious life to 

redeem and to save. 

The Lord is your Captain, your Si^n is 
the Cross, the emblem you carry 
through dang,er and loss ; 

The World is your Country, "To Serve" 
is your creed ; and your people : 
" All Mankind in trouble and 
need." 



^olbiers, (gob is J^ear! 

y^:;^ru0t in tbe Xorb, abibe witb Ibim 

i ^ C^brouQb war'0 accureeb niQbt ; 

^K^ 1bi0 refuse anb Ibie fortreae bolb 

^CbrouQb barftne66 anb tbrougb ligbt 

Sureli? Ibe eball beliver tbee 

Safe from tbe fowler'6 enare, 

free from tbe noieome pestilence 
®n fielb, in eea or air* 

Beneatb tbe cover of Ibie mrxQe 
Un Ibim tbi? truet eball be ; 

Ibie trutb tb? ebielb anb bucftler firm 
Sball fteep all barm from tbee. 

Mben banger tbreatene in tbe nigbt 
ITbou 6balt not be biemaijeb; 

Mben ebelle anb arrows fV^ b? ba? 
n;bou 6balt not be afraib* 



Two-Hundred-27 GOD IS NEAR 



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Zen tbou0an& at tb^ ban5 ; 

^bine ci?e0 eball eec tbe wicl^c5 fall 
Xikc grain upon tbe lant)» 

Because tbou &welle6t vvitb tbe XorJ) 
IRo bliQbt nor ecorcbing flame 

IRor Dea&li? plague eballcome to tbee 
Mbo livetb in Tbie name* 

l?ea, veril?, tbe Xor& batb eent 
Ibis angele from tbe tbrone 

JLo watcb an& guar& tbee, leet tbou 
&a0b TL\)^ foot againet a etone. 

(Ibe lion an& tbe a&ber, ?ea, 
^be &ragon tbou ebalt meet ; 

TDinfearing, tbou ebalt vanquieb tbem 
?ln& cru0b tbem at tbip feet, 

ZTruet in tbe Xor5, an& Ibe sball be 

Hlvvaps vvitbin tM call ; 
Tbie fortreee eball encompase tbee 

Hn& levire bouse eball falL 



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/irpj3i ! Jfor a '^mtt horn atx i\\t ^en^ to brutg 
^^ to all ^wmanttg, tij^ JSIorh, tl|ts OIl]ngtmasttbje ; 
^s tl|Ere no JVn^^I cl^otr to strt^ ? ^o pealing clitmes 
of hells to ring anh l|eralb far anh foihe, tljis manhate 
from tlje ^irince of Peace : ** ^tlet fell's turmoil for- 
ever cease, nnh ^eace an Jartlj abibe I " 

"^orb! ^rom our Ijearls purge Ijate anh sin, anb 
let ®% Spirit hfoell £iiitl|in, all ^rutlj anh Clll|aritu. 
®l|ou see'st from ©Ij^ tlyrone on l|igl|, ^Ijg erring 
cljilbren fall anh hie, hg ^ar's unjust hecree : 
Jl[atl|er of ^erc^ ! (3ln "Ollig migl|t, hirect tl|e Rulers' 
l]earts ariglyt ; '®lf^ ^^sM^^ cause tlyem ta see ! 

^n place of l^ate, anh greeh^, anh prihe, let ^o6e 
£tjitl|in tl^eir lyearts abihe ; "(gooh piill to ^11 on 
^artl|." "Qllien, sl|all tlje ^Angel cljoir sing a glorious 
antl^em to out ^ing in tljanfefulness anh mirtlj^ 
^o I "^et tlfis message come to tl^em, lirigl|t as tl|e 
^tar of ^etljleljem: 



ilp Hobing Cup 

^T|^HILE all the World is tuning, up 
I I ^ And sinking, Christmas lays 
^-S-^ I 'd like to fill a loving, cup 

And drink to "happy days." 

Nor would the nectar of the ^ods 
With my sweet draug,ht compare ; 

Methinks, I 'd have it by long, odds 
On famed Olympus, there. 

I 'd fill my cup with rarest wine ; 

"Eternal Youth" I'd blend ; 
I 'd stir in all your love and mine — 
And then ! We 'd drink, my friend. 

The Christmas days could come or ^o ; 

Our joys would never end; 
Now ! Just let us suppose it so 

And pass the cup, my Friend. 



THE CUP OF LIFE sometimes holds nectar, 
sometim^es gall ; some get more hitter than 
of sweet, more sorrow than seems just and 
meet ; some turn their siveetness into gall, 
and some make nectar of it all. 




Hiit'^i pouquet 

AKE life a bouquet all complete, 
Your heart a frag,rant rose ; 
Your mind a lily chaste and 
sweet, 
The purest bloom that blows. 

The flowers of your heart and mind 
Share freely while you live ; 

The more you ^ive the more you find 
How much you have to feive. 

Throug,h sunny calm or stormy day, 
Somewhere, some \vind will blow 

The sweetness of your life's bouquet 
Around you as you ^o. 

It 's the ^ood little things you do ; it 's the 
nice little words you say ; it 's the joy you are 
^ivin^ makes life worth the living, — completing 
Life's bouquet. 



jfaretoell, 0ib ^ear 

FAREWELL to you, O fleeting, year ! 
Alone with Destiny you leave us 
here ; 
Faint on the threshold of bright hope 
we stand, a supplication on our lips 
for peace throug,hout the land. 

We do not kno\v the Future's store ; ^ve 
have Thy guidance. Lord, we need 
no more ; 

Incline our hearts, ^vith love, to^vard all 
mankind, then in the new year 
lasting peace and happiness we 11 
find. 

Farewell, Old Year ! Thy waning, star 
sends forth her hopeful radiance 
from afar ; 

And as she dims in cloud and disappears 
a brighter Star of Peace will shine, 
eternal, through the years ! 



A LEAP YEAR PRO -PO 



^^TOW Leap Tear movetK on apace, 
•*■ ^ Still single bliss is mine ; 
TKougk not amiss in form or face 
A miss alone I pine. 

My SoutKern Kome is fair and brigKt 

'Neatn skies forever clear ; 
TKere are no cabarets at nigKt, 

Mo movie pictures Kere. 

A waiting nest of snowj? down, 

A cKarming bungalow 
RigKt in tKe Keart of Honey town, 

WKere noney blossoms blow ; 

Where all day long tne love-birds sing, 
Come, Sweetheart, come to me ! 

In Honeytown it 's always Spring 
And sweet as sweet can be. 

At e'en, when honeyed zephyrs blox>?, 

Like turtle doves yiOe '11 coo, 
And nestle in our bungalov?, 
We two, just Me and You ! 





Jlinboo Vtv9iion of tfje Creation 
0t OToman 

'T the very be^innin^ of Time 
Twashtri, tKe Vulcan of the 
Hindoo Mytholog,y, created the 
World, according, to their 
crumbling tablets and musty tomes in the 
archives of that ancient people. Now, 
this pseudo ^od with the limitations 
found that he had exhausted his entire 
human material in the creation of Man. 
There did not remain one solid element. 
Twashtri perplexed, fell into a profound 
meditation, arousing from which, he did 
as follows ; 

He took the roundness of the moon, 
the undulations of the serpent, 
the entwinement of climbing, plants, 
the trembling of the ^rass, 
the slenderness of the rose- vine and 
the velvet of the flo^ver, 
the lightness of the leaf and 



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the glance of tKe fawn, 

the ^aity o£ the Sun's rays and 

the tears of the mist, 

the inconsistency of the Wind and 

the timidity of the hare, 

the vanity of the peacock and 

the softness of the do^vn on the 

throat of the swallow, 
the hardness of the diamond, 
the sweet flavor of honey and 
the cruelty of the ti^er, 
the warmth of fire, 
the chill of snow, 
the chatter of the jay and 
the cooing of the turtle dove : — 

He united all these and formed a Woman. 
Then he made a present of her to Man. 

Eig,ht days later the Man came to 
Twashtri and said' "My Lord, the 
creature thou ^avest me poisons my ex- 
istence. She chatters without rest, she 
takes up all my time, she laughs for 



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notKin^ at all, and is always ill." And 
Twashtri received the Woman ag,ain. 

But ei^Kt days later tKe Man came 
a^ain to the ^od, and said: "My lord, 
my life is very solitary since I returned 
this creature. I remember she danced 
before me, sing,in^. I remember how she 
g,lanced at me from the corner of her 
eyes; that she played with me; clung» 
to me." 

And Twashtri returned the Woman 
to him. 

Three days only passed and Twashtri 
saw the Man coming, to him a^ain. 

"My Lord," said he, "I do not under- 
stand exactly how, but I am sure the 
Avoman causes me more annoyance than 
pleasure. I beg, you to relieve me of her." 

But Twashtri said : "Go your way 
and do your best." 



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And the Man cried; "I cannot live 
witK her! " 

''Neither can you live without her," 
said Twashtri. 

And the Man was sorrowful, murmur- 
ing,, "Woe is me, I can neither live with 
her nor without her." 

Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who 
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through 

Not one returns to tell us of the Road, 
Which to discover w^e must travel too. 

Omar K. LXIV. 

Praise is the regular diet of fools, yes, 
but the wise men like it, and if they 
could an^le for fish as they do for com- 
pliments, Isaak Walton would have some 
competition in the Piscatorial Hall of 
Fame, believe me. 

A snub is a rub on the hub 
of the dub you collide with. 



(Ike 

Transformation of Man 

Ye Cloisterman's Version 




Cfje ^ransiformation of 0im 

■^c dotatcrttiatt'a "Persian 

'EARS rolled ty, and it came to 
pass that all the excellent 
material that the Vulcan had 
used in the creation of Man 
be^an to deteriorate and to disinteg,rate, 
and the Woman in that day looked with 
sorrow and aversion upon the human 
wreck, and straightway ^oeth she unto 
her alleg,ed creator, and maketh one 
awful holler on the shortcoming's of her 
sometime lord and master, and returned 
the debris to Twashtri. 

*' O mighty Vulcan ! " thus cried she, 
*' Look at the Man you wished-on me : 
He hath no hair upon his head, 
His eyes are dull, his nose is red ; 
His very teeth are falling, out ; 
He is a frig,ht, beyond a doubt : 
The creature limps, his feet are sore, 
I do not like him any more ! " 



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The Hindoo g,od, a^ain perplexed 
To see his pet creation vexed 
Took Mr. Man into the woods 
And thus addressed the damag^ed 
^oods : 
" You have my sympathy, old man 
And I ^vill help you all I can : 
I'll send my Artisans to you 
To shape and make you over new." 

Twashtri then summoned : 

2 Famous Doctors, 

2 Trained Nurses, 

2 Physical Culturists, 

2 Oculists, 

2 Eye and Ear Specialists, • 

1 Dentist, 

1 Cook, 

2 Manicurists, 
2 Chiropodists, 
2 Masseurs, 

2 Beauty Touchers, 
2 Barbers, 



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2 Wi^makers, 
2 Haberdashers, 
2 Shoemakers, and 
9 Tailors ; 

And he turned them loose on the human 
discard. And Lehold, when the Man 
came forth out of the ^voods, and the 
Woman ^limmed the Transformation 
that had been -wroug^ht, she rejoiced 
exceedingly, saying : " O Twash, is this 
the Man I returned to you? " " The same 
Man," he murmured, " and then some!^* 



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Put timid Scare without 
Let honest Dare come in ; 
With Courage, you \vill conquer 

Doubt 
And Life's ^reat battle win. 



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Kindness is tKe Soul tKat lingers 
By Earth's weary ^uest ; 
Kindness is Jehovah's finders 
Weaving, robes of rest : 

Kindness walks about the City; 
Swing,s the ^ates ajar; 
Opens up the Heavens of Pity 
Where the Immortals are ! 



Be Tolerant, put out the ^rud^e ! 

Remember man 

That God will jud^e ! 

And while you look throug,h 

narrow eyes 

While praying that 

The Lord All-Wise 
Be merciful in jud^in^ you 

Be tolerant 

With your fellows too. 



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UST think of it ! a little Love 
Will soothe an aching heart : 
A few kind ^vords, a helpful deed 
And you have done your part ; 



If each one ^ave a little Love, 
A kindly Word, a Smile : 
The whole World would be happy 
And every Life worth while ! 



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Of the unspoken Word you are master: 
The spoken Word may be master of 
you! 

Thoughts unexpressed, you may 

forget ; 
Harsh Words brin^ sorrow and regret. 
Attune your heart and tongue to song, 
And cheer some sad, dull life alon^. 



Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace : there- 
by ^ood shall come unto thee. 

Receive I pray thee, the law from this mouth, and lay 
up his words in thine heart. 

Job XXII, 21-22 



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H 



^ Wiaitm station 

IFE is just a waiting Station 
On tKe Road of Destiny ; 
From our birtK we travel onward 
Onward toward Infinity. 
Here on Earth we're simply waiting 
At the Station, contemplating ; 
Waiting for the Grand Transition — 
Flyer for the Home Elysian. 

Now it's coming,, hear the whistle — 

Everyone is ^ettin^ on ; 

Soon the Earth will fade behind us 

And Infinity will dawn : 

Youth and Spring and Love Eternal 

Ever are abiding there ; 

With delights so ^rand awaiting 

Life is irksome otherwhere. 

If a man die shall he live a^ain ? For the days of my 
appointed time will I wait, till my change come. 

Job XIV, 14. 



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Why, if the Soul can flin^ the dust aside, 
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, 

Wer' t not a Shame, wer't not a Shame for him 
In this clay carcase crippled to abide ? 

Omar K. XLIV. 

We are but the rebuilt clay 
Of Cain and Abel 
Doin^ service in our day 
As we are able : 

Soil is Soul, and Soul is Spirit 
In succession : 
In Creation all find merit 
Through Progression. 

For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and 

that He shall stand upon the latter day 

upon the Earth. And though, after 

my shin worms destroy this body, 

yet in my flesh shall I see God. 

Job XIX, 21-26. 

Hear the dyin^ Soldier cry 
Looking, up^ward toward the sky : 
" God of Mercy ! are You there ? 
Do You see me ? do You care ? " 




Cben lasf gou anb 3 

And I SQvj VVierefore Vo \\\e unmarried; \\ is 
good {or Viicm i{ Vlieij abide even qs I ; but \\ 
\\\e\^ cannoV contain, let Vbem marry, {or it 
is better to marry than to burn. Uv Cor. VII, 8, 9 



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OTfjp ^acljelors;? 

OW, ladies and gentlemen, listen! 
While I sin^ of the joys of a life 
That come w^hen the man is 
a husband 
And a lady a dutiful wife. 



When Adam awoke in his Eden 
He first felt the need of a mate ; 
Every creature that breathed in 

his garden 
Was meeting, or had met, their mate. 

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All around him were turkey and 

chicken 
And horses and cattle and sheep — 
All wise to the scheme of creation, 
Poor Adam, alone, had to weep. 



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A Bachelor Man by compulsion 
Was Adam, one lone, dreary nig,ht ; 
But tKere was a reason, I tell you — 
There wasn't a woman in si^ht. 

On Adam the Lord took compassion 
Took a spare -rib from out of his side ; 
And from it he fashioned a woman 
And g,ave him a beautiful bride. 

Now ladies and g,entlemen, listen ! 
All you of the Bachelor kind — 
There's a lot of the joys of existence 
You are losing, and leaving behind. 

No spare - ribs ! but rooster and 

chicken 
Are crowing, and cackling around ; 
There's not an excuse to be sing,le 
With business like this on the ground. 







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TUe pieces were scort^ 
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Sold Adorn, bewildered : 
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But Veil we, dear Evc-o : 

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OTasifiington Bap at tfje jTair 

^. J. 1915 

To Sir Louis Hunt : 

Erstwhile of Spo, but now of Chi, 
Where Silver-tongues are rated high. 
When Lou gets talkin' of the " Fair " 
Yon know he saw a plenty there. 

When he returned to Old Spokan' 

And told his Fairy tales of San 

They spread throughout the State of Wash 

And Everybody went, b'gosh I 



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HERE Mountains kiss the starry 
Blue; 

Where Old Pacific rolls her tide, 
A welcome waits for me and you ; 
The Golden Gate is open wide ; 
A voice comes from the Western Sea 
'Tis San Francisco calling, me. 

T Nature's Altar, millions g,reet 
The Goddess of the Golden Gate 
And offer tribute at her feet 
For splendors that their eyes await : 
There will I journey toward the Sea 
Where my fair hostess waits for me. 




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HERE all the people of tKe Earth 
Are ^atherin^ in g,rand array 
To celebrate the glorious birth 
Of Panama's Great Waterway ! 
The marvel of the century 
That clears a path from sea to sea. 




OUR Show of beauty and surprise 
Now lures me toward your 
Golden Gate 
Beyond where jewelled towers rise 
And Earth's most precious treasures 

wait: 
To San FranciscOy by the Sea 
Millions are coming on with me. 



^AIR Columbia^ hail to thee, 
Firstborn child of Liberty ; 
Mother of a people free 

From the tyrants sway. 
When the fearful ni^ht had ^one 
And there came a glorious dawn 
Heaven's blessing shown upon 

Independence Day. 

Oh, the f^ht our fathers made ! 
What a price of blood they paid, 
Till the foe fell back dismayed 

Weary of the strife. 
Then, by declaration ^rand 
They proclaimed thru every land 
Welcome, and a helping hand ; 

Liberty and Life. 

Freemen, hear the cannon roar! 

We must battle as of yore 

For our Country's life once more 

In a mortal fray. 
Sons of brave and loyal men 
Smite the foe, till once a^ain 
Lasting peace will come, and then 

Welcome Freedom's Day ! 



0lh (glorp 

^IS a glorious banner 

Of red, white and blue, 

Each star as a State 
Stands loyal and true ; 

'Tis Liberty's symbol 
And always will be 

Her pride and her standard 
On land or on sea. 

I 'II stand by our colors 

Of red, white and blue ; 
To our sacred stardard 

I 'II always be true ; 
Like stars everlasting 

In Heaven's blue sky 
Our fla^ will be waving 

In ^lory on hi^h. 

I love thee, Old Glory, 

O fla^ of the free. 
As I love my Country 

And fair Liberty ! 
In shimmering silk 

Or in tatters and ra^s, 
I'll proudly salute thee 

O Fla^ of all Fla^s ! 



tKfje American Creeb 

I BELIEVE IN ONE COUNTRY, THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ! 
In her Constitution that guarantees to 
everyone within her borders the rig,ht of 
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; 
in her Government that upholds the 
principles of equality and justice, upon 
which the well-being, and happiness of 
her people are founded. 

I BELIEVE that Love is the origin of 
all good ; that God is Love, omnipotent 
and omniscient. Who will redeem the 
world from Hate and War — from Sin and 
Death. 

I BELIEVE that out of turmoil and 
trial we will grow to realize the eternal 
plan of the Creator ; that the people of 
all the nations will come to know and 
accept the truth of His infinite wisdom 



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and goodness, and will love and worship 
Him through one religion, one lang,ua^e 
one country, one united people. 

I BELIEVE that the world's salvation 
will be won only throug,h sacrifice, 
fig,htin^ and striving, courag,eously for 
ri^ht, with malice toward none, with 
charity for all. 

, I BELIEVE that, God helping us, our 
Country will stand firm as the Rock of 
A^es, shedding her li^ht of liberty so 
far that all the nations of the world may 
see the Way of Life, and come unto ever* 
lasting peace and happiness. Amen. 



Cije Call to ^erbe 

X WAKE ! My comrades, do you hear 
jf\ The bu^le call and drum ? 
It is the summ.ons of our Chief 

Commanding us to come : 
He calls for true and loyal men 

To serve on land and sea ; 
To fi^ht in Freedom's name 
ag»ain 
And set the whole world free. 

Come, volunteer ! Do not delay, 

Forget the mart and plow ; 
Put on your soldier clothes today 
Your Country needs you now! 
To serve and strive unflinch- 
ingly 
Until we win the fi^ht ; 
xi To prove the truth convincingly 
That Freedom's cause is ri^ht. 





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For lo ! It is the hour of Fate 

When tyrant thrones must 

fall ; 
Tis not for us to hesitate 

But hasten to the call : 
To serve, and battle fearlessly 

Together, stand or fall 
Until the torch of Liberty 
Shall shed its li^ht o'er All 

REFRAIN 

Now ! with our glorious Fla^ unfurled 
We'll fi^ht on land and sea 

Till all the Nations of the World 
Are One, for Liberty ! 




O LISTEN ! Loyal citizens of our 
beloved U. S. A. 

Yon War-cloud marks the darkest hour 

before the dawn of brig,hter day. 
The troubled Sea moves angrily, the 

sullen, moaning, ^vaves leap hi^h, 
'Midst thunder peals the li^htnin^ flash 

brings us this message from the sky: 

God rules the sea ! Navies tremble on 

the waves ! 
Freemen never shall be slaves ! 

Our Ship of State with mainsail reefed 

must face the rag,in^ storm at last ; 
With Captain Wilson at the helm we '11 

nail our colors to the mast. 
No Russ or Turk or Teuton shield, no 

foreig,n fla^ or false array. 
Just Uncle Sam's red, ^vhite and blue, 

and Stately stars all U. S. A. ! 



Two Hundred-63 GOD RULES THE SEA 

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No lust of feold, no g,reed of pow'r, no 

spark of racial enmity ; 
No humbling, blow for vanquished foe, 

we seek no shameful victory. 
Thus fortified, thoug^h un- allied with 

tyranny and selfish mi^ht, 
We '11 follow ^vhere our Captain leads 

and w^in the cause of truth and rig,ht. 

All ready, too, O Captain true ! We 

^vait the bu^le call for men, 
The Spirit of the patriots is stirring in 

our hearts ag,ain. 
Yes ! We will fig,ht, only for ri^ht, 

true as the martyrs fought before, 
Not for a phantom victory, but living 

Peace for evermore. 

God rules the sea ! Omnipotent, as on 

the land ! 
King,doms fall at His command ! 



Hittle tCrue ]Blnt 

Everywhere de Fia^s is fiyin, 

\^ But to home de folks is si^hin ; 

I know it ain't no holiday 
Fer Dad an' Tom is feoin' away. 

Yep ! Tom has ^ot new^ soldier clothes, 
But w^here he's ^oin' no one knows ; 
And ev'ry ni^ht w^hen supper 's done 
Pa ducks, an' takes his shooter-^un. 

I really think that sister Sue 

Is fixin' up fer ^oin' too : 

'Cause she jus' fits an' knits, an' sews 

On nuthin' else but nurses' clothes. 

Mumsie knows der ^oin' away 
But never asts a' one to stay ; 
I know when she's alone she cries 
Ders so much red around her eyes. 



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LITTLE TRUE BLUE 



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At school just 'fore de last tell rin^s 
We marches 'round de yard an' sin^s 
While teacher or some ei^ht-^rade ^uy 
Pulls up our dandy fla^ way hi^h. 

I know der's war ! I w^ant to ^o ! 
But I don't want to let Ma know ; 
Tom's Captain said if I w^ould come 
He* d let me march and play de drum. 



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Corporal ^reen JBreamsJ 
of l&atJjIeen 

I DREAMED of home ag,ain, Kathleen, 
In peaceful climes beyond the sea, 
Where fairies g,amboled o'er the ^reen 
Unfolding Nature's charms to me. 
Thru flowered ^valks by silvery streams 

We romped and played the whole 
day lon^ ; 

You w^ere the darling of my dreams, 

The little fairy of my son^. 

I'm coming, home ag>ain, Kathleen, 

Some day my dream is coming true; 

Some one is g,oing, to be my Queen, 
A fairy whispers it is You. 

I know your ans^ver, Kathleen dear ; 

Your eyes speak lovingly and true ; 
There is no Earth \vhen you are near, 

There is no Heaven ^vithout You. 
The smiles that others g,ive to me 

No thrills awaken in me now ; 
You, only You in dreams I see, 

A nuptial \vreath upon your brow. 



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CORPORAL GREEN 



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Where sweet magnolias scent the air 

In Dixie dell by ^vimpling, stream, 
We' 11 build a cozy cottag,e there, 

Just like the bower of my dream. 
O, that will be some home, Kathleen, 

Where softest summer zephyrs blow 
With here and there a Httle Green, 

To brighten up our bung,alow. 




I'm coming home ag>ain, Kathleen, 

Some day when peaceful dreams 
come true ; 

I fancy I '11 be " Serg,eant" Green, 
But aWays " Corporal" to You. 



'' Jierlin or Pusit " 

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THAT'S IT ! " Berlin or Bust ! " boys, 
Step lively to the fore ; 
The Bell of Liberty resounds 
Throughout our land once more. 
'Midst strains of martial sonfe, boys, 

And ruffled beat of drum 
We '11 march ri^ht in to Germany, 
Yes, to Berlin, by ^um ! 

Come on with mi^ht and main, boys, 

Brin^ battle to the foe 
Nor will we change our course until 

We strike the winning blow ! 
Come on to Berlin, come boys 

Forget the mart and plow, 
Take up the rifle and the sword. 

Your country calls you now ! 



Two Hundred-69 BERLIN OR BUST 

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Come follow with our fla^, boys, 

Those gallant men of bra^vn 
They need our strength to win the fi^ht ; 

Come on ! Come on ! Come on ! 
We are United-States boys, 

Our legions must prevail ! 
It's up to us, " Berlin or Bust! " 

Come, blaze Old Glory's trail ! 



INARCH, then, against our foes 

In close and firm array ; 
Misguided tyrants to oppose 

Throughout this troublous day. 

Grapple the sons of ni^ht ; 

Defeat their vain design, 
In God we trust for kindly li^ht 

And ^race and love divine ! 



tKo Jielgium 

Xo ! Mben tbe van&ale' fire eball be 
6iIenceD In tbe frai? 

freedom, from ber tbrone triumpb^ 
ant, 0ball o'er all tbe Morl& bol& 
0wai?^ 

IRovv, we eee tbee cru6be& an5 blee5** 
iwQ, beavi? la&en witb tbi? croee ; 

IDea ! Me bear tb? plaintive plea5in9 
anD WOUI& belp tbee in tbi? l066* 

Wbere tbi?pillage& bomee anb altare, 
wrecl^et) an& burne5, a ruin liee, 

2)eluge& b? tbe bloob of martijra, 
Belgium eball again ariee^ 



mu0t enb tbe reign of G^error b? 
our sacrifice supreme ; 

®ut from blacfteet nigbt ant) error 
]free&om'6 boli? ligbt will etream* 



OTfjen tlje OTatcf) ^topg 

"A Voice refounbs like Cbunberpeal 
'VTiib angry IPat)es unb claslj of Steel ; " 

The Line, the Line, the German Line 
Is falling back to thee, O Rhine ! 

Ten thousand or ten million strong 
They shall not stand, their cause is wron^; 
The ancient feudal castle bell 
Is rin^in^ out the tyrant's knell. 

The martyrs of a valiant race 
From Heav'n look down on their disgrace; 
'Tis time ! O Children of the Rhine 
To rise, and march in Freedom's line ! 

The Rhine will rise with German blood, 
Then o'er the land \vill sweep the flood ; 
Strong on its ruins there will stand 
A free and glorious Fatherland ! 

Ah, then ! A peaceful Rhine will flow, 
And Freedom's golden lifeht will ^low ; 
The Watch will stop upon the Rhine, 
The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine! 

Blest Fatherland, no danger thine ! 
No need of Watch upon the Rhine ! 



JA/HEN the dread night has passed 
Of trouble and travail, 

The day of Peace will dawn at last. 
Forever to prevail ; 

Amen. 



